Fleming Oak LbNA #73344
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Add Location| Owner: | Silver Eagle
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| Plant date: | Sep 7, 2018 |
| Location: | Oakwood Cemetery |
| City: | Comanche |
| County: | Comanche |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | BeReeves |
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| Last found: | Dec 25, 2020 |
| Status: | F |
| Last edited: | Sep 19, 2018 |
*** Part of my Famous Trees Of TX Series ***
Terrain Difficulty: Easy (flat, 150 yards RT)
Status: alive
Texans are fortunate to have such a rich and colorful historic heritage and trees which serve as witnesses to some of these historic events. Texas has also been blessed with trees famous for being the largest of their kind in America. "Famous Trees Of Texas" is a book written in 1970 (and updated in 2015) by the Texas Forest Service that describes these trees, and this series will take you to some of them.
Martin V. Fleming and his father arrived in Texas in 1854 and spent their first night under the live oak that later became known as the Fleming Oak. When the county seat was established at Comanche, this same oak was on the southwest corner of the site chosen for the courthouse. About 1911, the city decided to pave the courthouse square, but as the workmen began clearing trees from the area, “Uncle Mart” Fleming, as he was then affectionately known, stopped the workmen as they approached “his tree” and threatened to use his “No. 10’s” on them if they even touched the oak with an axe. Thinking he meant a 10-gauge shotgun, the workers backed down, and the tree was spared. Uncle Mart later confided that he had meant his size 10 boots. In 1919 Uncle Mart again came to the defense of his tree when some “uninformed” citizens talked about removing the old oak. They didn’t, and you can still see it today near the Old Cora Courthouse before finding this box at nearby Oakwood Cemetery, where Fleming is buried.
Directions:
To see the tree and courthouse, go to the corner of TX 16 and US 67. To get the box, go north on Austin st (TX 16) for 0.6 mile, right on E Cedar Ave for 0.2 mile, then left into main entrance arch of Oakwood Cemetery and park by B Road.
Clues:
Walk down B Road to sign on left for C8 C5, then continue 22 steps and go right 30 steps to grave of M. V. Fleming. Continue 38 steps to multi-trunk bush before wall at edge of cemetery. LB is within trunks on left side under sticks and leaves.
Hike length: 0.1 miles
Terrain Difficulty: Easy (flat, 150 yards RT)
Status: alive
Texans are fortunate to have such a rich and colorful historic heritage and trees which serve as witnesses to some of these historic events. Texas has also been blessed with trees famous for being the largest of their kind in America. "Famous Trees Of Texas" is a book written in 1970 (and updated in 2015) by the Texas Forest Service that describes these trees, and this series will take you to some of them.
Martin V. Fleming and his father arrived in Texas in 1854 and spent their first night under the live oak that later became known as the Fleming Oak. When the county seat was established at Comanche, this same oak was on the southwest corner of the site chosen for the courthouse. About 1911, the city decided to pave the courthouse square, but as the workmen began clearing trees from the area, “Uncle Mart” Fleming, as he was then affectionately known, stopped the workmen as they approached “his tree” and threatened to use his “No. 10’s” on them if they even touched the oak with an axe. Thinking he meant a 10-gauge shotgun, the workers backed down, and the tree was spared. Uncle Mart later confided that he had meant his size 10 boots. In 1919 Uncle Mart again came to the defense of his tree when some “uninformed” citizens talked about removing the old oak. They didn’t, and you can still see it today near the Old Cora Courthouse before finding this box at nearby Oakwood Cemetery, where Fleming is buried.
Directions:
To see the tree and courthouse, go to the corner of TX 16 and US 67. To get the box, go north on Austin st (TX 16) for 0.6 mile, right on E Cedar Ave for 0.2 mile, then left into main entrance arch of Oakwood Cemetery and park by B Road.
Clues:
Walk down B Road to sign on left for C8 C5, then continue 22 steps and go right 30 steps to grave of M. V. Fleming. Continue 38 steps to multi-trunk bush before wall at edge of cemetery. LB is within trunks on left side under sticks and leaves.
Hike length: 0.1 miles