Historical grave marker found and returned

Call it what you will — serendipity or a lost soul yearning for home.

In December, the Hays County Historical Commission met on the former 101 Ranch near Hays City at “The Plant at Kyle” wedding venue, which is owned by Mark Holzbach and Dana Friis-Hansen and managed by neighbors, Jamie and Martha Kinscherff.  

Kinscherff told the commission’s cemetery chair, Jo Landon, of her discovery of a broken gravestone in debris washed down in nearby York Creek, known locally as Potter’s Creek. The stone read “Sacred to the memory of Margaret Clement,” and gave a birth date in 1846.