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Grandpa's Pocket Watch (RETIRED) LbNA #30324 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Apr 21, 2007
Location:
City:Mineola
County:Wood
State:Texas
Boxes:1
Planted by:Wag Time
Found by: Lucy Locket
Last found:Jul 4, 2008
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Apr 21, 2007
When I was about 10 years old, I met one of my Dad’s coworkers and his wife. They became very close to my family, and soon we adopted each other as grandparents and granddaughter. “Candy Man”, as my adopted Grandpa was known, retired and moved out of the big city and onto a farm in the Hoard Community near Mineola. He had to sell the farm and move into town after the farm eventually got to be too much to maintain. Candy loved family history and cherished his few family heirlooms, and when he passed away in 2006, he left his mother’s pocket watch to me. This box is placed in his memory.

From the intersection of Hwy 69 and Hwy 80 in downtown Mineola, go south on Hwy 69 and turn right on Belcher Street (a/k/a Wood CR 2800). If you reach the fancy arched entrance to the newer part of the cemetery, you’ve gone too far. Just a little ways down on the left will be a large wooden sign for “City Cemetery”; enter the cemetery here. The road will curve about 90 degrees to the left. One of the first monuments you will see once the road straightens out is for “Slayton”; park there. Behind the Slayton grave is a very large hardwood tree w/ wispy bushes around its base. The box is at the base of this tree at its back, opposite the road. If you reach a fenced corner bordering the newer cemetery on the left, right by the road, and a rusty flagpole with no flag, you’ve gone too far.

Be sure to notice the beautiful white angel statue back by the fence behind and too the left of the big tree. There are other beautiful markers both in this cemetery and in the newer sections next door if you have time to wander around.