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Uncle Bob
Robert Stadler
1790 - 1861
*First Grave
Robert Stadler was a brother to Lydia Stadler Fitch, wife of William Fitch, and the Uncle of Empson Fitch.
*There is a question as to rather Robert was actually the first grave. Other stories passed down through the generations indicate that Empson was the first buried there because his sons were gone fighting in the Civil War and Robert and Delilah had no way to transport him to Old Knoxville Cemetery, when he died,  so therefore buried him on their own land.
Texas Historical Commission
Texas
Robert Graves Stadler
(1790-1861)
Born in Granville Couty, North
Carolina, Robert Graves Stadler
was a veteran of the War of 1812
and the Texas War for Indepen-
dence. He purchased land in this
area in 1845 and settled near
the already established com-
munity of Griffin (3 mi. se). By 1853,
Stadler had encouraged relatives
from North Carolina to make their
homes here. He died just as the Civil
War began, having laid the founda-
tion for what became the farming
community of Blackjack.
Recorded - 1985