W. N. Staples

J. D. Staples Born
June 21, 1855
Died
July 19, 1860

Mary E. Staples
Born
June 27, 1858
Died
July 8, 1860

W. N. Staples
Born
Mar. 2, 1865
Died
Mar. 17, 1865

Photo Credit: Rosa G. Gonzales

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Biography

This infant was the child of Waymon N. Staples and Sarah Rhoden Dunlap. His father Waymon was born in Tennessee about 1827 and died in Alice, Texas in 1893. Mr. Staples was a leading merchant of Corpus Christi where he marketed lumber from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Cuba. About 1876 he exchanged this business for property near Alice, Texas to engage in stock raising. Mrs. Staples was born in Green County, Alabama on July 21, 1834 and died in Luling, Texas on Feb. 21, 1905. Waymon and Sarah had married in Mississippi in 1855 prior to moving to San Marcos in 1856 and then on to Corpus Christi in 1858. It was while living in Corpus Christi that Waymon and Sarah lost three of their children. Little W. N. Staples was born and died in March of 1865 at the end of the Civil War. He had lived only about 2 weeks when his little soul was entrusted to God and his little body to Old Bayview Cemetery where he was laid to rest next to his two siblings. His sister Mary Elizabeth was only two years old when she died in 1860, and his brother Joseph Douglas was only 5 years old when he died only 11 days after Mary Elizabeth. Though Mr. Waymon Staples died in Alice and Sarah in Luling, their remains were returned to Corpus Christi that they might rest next to their three little ones in Old Bayview Cemetery.

Research and transcription: Michael A. Howell