This is the family cemetery of John Jourdan (J.J.) McCuistion ( various spellings “ion” vs. “ian”). His grandson was Shawnee Thomas (Tommie) Carpenter whose wife, Edna Turley Carpenter (both buried in nearby Live Oak Cemetery), wrote the family history Tales from the Manchaca hills: The unvarnished memoirs of a Texas gentlewoman. Tommie’s mother Susan Ann McCuistion Hancock is buried here, as is JJ’s wife Rebecca Thompson McCuistion.
Edna Turley Carpenter’s book uses the spelling “McCuistion”. Would suggest either a name change or an AKA for the cemetery to include that spelling to help searches.
His obituary says he was born August 19th 1824, and settled on Onion Creek in 1846, served as a Texas Ranger and Justice of the Peace. He died of pneumonia, May 25, 1900 after his buggy fell over in Onion Creek. He figures prominently in Edna Turley Carpenter’s book about Manchaca.
A few of the publications he is referenced: Travis County, Texas, School Census Of 1854; History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties (p.327), and in Frank Brown’s Annals of Travis County and of the City of Austin (From the Earliest Times to the Close of 1875).
Links:
https://www.austingenealogicalsociety.org/cemeteries/mccuistian-cemetery/
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2323688/mccuistian-cemetery
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