Bear or Blanket Creek (goes by both names in older documents) is fed by Bear Springs, which are about 10K north-northeast of Concan (Uvalde County) on Archie Kelly’s property (in 1979).
“Here A. B. and Sue Kelly settled in the early days. Indians often came to the springs when the Kellys lived there.”
Bear Creek is a tributary of the Frio River. Grants in this area were patented to the Heirs of L.D. Lafferty [Lofferty], William Friday, and R. M. Hokit along Bear Creek. On Hokit’s land is the old Bear Creek Cemetery. Likely this is the final resting place for old Lorenzo, given that he was said to be homesteading his 160 acre survey at the time of his death in the spring of 1882.
The Google Earth coordinates for the Bear Creek Cemetery are 29° 33′ 42.27″N, 99° 40′ 58.76″W
Source materials: Springs of Texas, by Gunnar Brun and Helen C. Besse (GoogleBooks)
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