This year, Polly Texas Pioneers Association, asked Texas Tejano.com to prepare an official “Historic Cemetery Designation” application for the Texas Historical Commission. This application is required to be submitted to review the required information and historical documents to consider the designation of “Historical Cemetery” for “Polly’s Cemetery”.
The requested information is extensive and requires scholarly research with appropriate written material with footnotes. Additionally, historical documents such as surveys, recorded deeds, photos, and a requested cemetery census if available. Unfortunately, the resulting challenge has been that there were never official records kept by any prior trustees or family members of individuals buried or the location of internment.
The exception to this was a 1985 “Tomb-Stone”(only) record conducted by the “Los Bexareños Genealogical Society” of San Antonio. For those of you interested, this record does not supply the location of interment nor burials beyond that year. Later this year, we will attempt to provide this list on our website.
For the record, the Polly Texas Pioneer Association has only been in existence for the past five years and is not responsible for records that were never kept. However, recently we asked a surveyor to plot new cemetery lots toward the front of the cemetery and we have already begun a cemetery registration journal for the future. Individuals requesting internment can supply a minimum of information to be recorded in the journal. Lastly, we have submitted our request for designation and upon receiving the designation we will pursue a request for a historical medallion and erect a plinth to place it on.