Located in Big Bend National Park, this gravesite is a marked exhibit accessible from the Persimmon Gap Drive. The grave is marked with a plain arrowhead-shaped rock and a modern gray marble headstone which reads:

Nina Seawell Hannold

Aug 26 1880

Sept 30 1911



An accompanying sign reads:

"This grave site is one of the few visible traces of Curtis and Nina Hannold's pioneer homestead. In 1908 the Hannolds moved here from Oklahoma by covered wagon. While Nina took care of the ranch and three children, Curtis supplemented their income by teaching school in Dugout Wells eight miles away. At age 29, Nina contracted uremic poisining during pregnancy, and died September 30, 1911. She asked to be buried on this hill overlooking the spring where she had often read to the children in the shade of the cottonwoods."



Big Bend National Park is brimming with reminders of the hardships pioneers faced living in this expansive and wild region. (October 2001)