Among Those Buried ...

Dear Editor,
   Thanks for posting the article on the cemetery ["In Memoriam," News, May 27], it gives me moral support! I'm a one-woman show to get the sadly neglected historic old San Antonio Masonic cemetery back in shape and on a perpetual care program. The Masons purchased this property in 1853. One of the earliest Masonic grounds in Texas, Alamo Masonic Cemetery contains the graves of some of San Antonio and Texas' founding families. It is the only cemetery that is neglected among 30 others in a 25-plus block area near the heart of downtown San Antonio.
   
   This is just a partial list of residents:
   
   Sinclair (wrote "The Eyes of Texas")
   Driscoll (saved the Alamo for goodness sake!)
   Smith (daughter of Erastus "Deaf" Smith)
   Fisk (served in the Army of Texas from 1836 to 1837)
   Frost (bank)
   Menger (hotel & soap factory)
   Meusebach (Mr. Meusebach founded Fredericksburg and made the peace treaty with the Indians)
   Onderdonk (famous regional artist)
   Cotton, Smith, Schmeltzer, Jenkins (all members of Terry's Texas Rangers)
   Newcomb (Texas Secretary of State)
   Van Riper (Texas Ranger)
   Ham (came to Texas with Jim and Rezin Bowie)
   Huth (involved in the colonization of Castroville)
   
   
   Go look at www.rootsweb.com/~txbexar2/alamomasonic.html.
   After I appeared on TV, the grass was cut Saturday the 15th. Now that the grass is cut, you can see damaged and broken tombstones everywhere. The Masons are now talking to the city about taking it over. The city has eight cemeteries that they maintain in the area.