Friends and Relatives of Greenleaf will host their Moonlight Talking Tombstone Tour on Saturday October 27th from 5:45 pm till 9:00 pm. Tickets for the tour are $8 and are available at the Brownwood Chamber of Commerce.
Tours to historic gravesites will run every 20 minutes and last approximately 1 ½ hours. Transportation for the tour will be provided at Higginbotham’s, located at 1500 Center Avenue (just off of Hwy 377S near the Truman Harlow overpass). The front gates will be closed for the event and participants will enter through the newly opened and restored Greenleaf Cemetery gate.
Visitors to the scenic Greenleaf Cemetery will be guided to the grave sites of “former” residents, portrayed by actors in period costumes, who will share something of their lives and times. Transportation continues from site to site during his tour of the lives historical people buried in Greenleaf Cemetery.Mark your calendar for an amazing and educational tour of one of Brownwood’s treasures, historic Greenleaf Cemetery.
Pictured above: Ann Willard portrays a part of her family heritage as Mattie Coggin, wife of Samuel R. Coggin and benefactor of the creation of the Perpetual Care Fund at Greenleaf during last year’s event. Below are photos of some of other volunteers at the 2011 Talking Tombstones Tour.
Henry Ford, Brownwood banker as portrayed by Bill Fishback.
Above: Wendell W. Mayes III portrays his grandfather, Wendell Mayes, Sr., a journalist and founder of the first radio station in Brownwood.
Pictured left: Don Morelock portrays Noah T. Byars, first pastor of First Baptist Church Brownwood and owner of the blacksmith shop in Washington on the Brazos, where the Declaration of Texas Independence was signed.
