I'm pasting here the interview with my aunt Aline Wilbeck Peters, who died a few months ago in El Campo--my last aunt/uncle.

I think I have a photo of John Halla, Grandma's brother-in-law, who is buried there. Do you want it?

Here is the interview with Aline; my Grandpa and Grandma Wilbeck's house is (was) that big house on the highway at Pierce. They moved there from "the farm" in the country in the 1930s, and they were living there when Mother and Aline graduated from El Campo High School.

John Halla died November 9, 1894; I don't have his birthdate in my database, and I may not have it at all. He doesn't seem to be on the 1880 census anywhere, so he may have still been in Bohemia at that time.---Karen McCann Hett, March, 2007

John Halla, Sr., was my Aunt Mary's husband who died and was buried in the old Pierce Cemetery by the creek. After we moved to the house on the highway at Pierce, Mama sent Cony and me to the pasture to look for John Halla's grave, who died in Pierce in 1894, not long after the family moved here from South Dakota. Mama said it was outlined with brick, and there were roses on the grave. But the cattle had trampled the fence and had torn up the graves, and we couldn't find it. You could tell there were graves there, though. The cemetery was on the Pierce Estate, and the Wittigs were renting the land and grazing it. There had been burials there as late as the late '20's, while I was attending Pierce School. --Aline Wilbeck Peters in an interview with Karen McCann Hett, July 1, 1984