This is that same courthouse structure on October 31, 1999.  Because it's a private residence now, I didn't get too close to take the picture.  But the building is in better shape now, having received repairs and fresh paint.  There are also more trees around it now.  The historical marker is still there, visible just above the wheels of the right of the two cannons in the left foreground.  Since there is a historical marker, I wondered if they would have minded if I had come closer to read the marker and admire the house.  But I didn't stay to ask!

The upper of these two photos is the entrance to the old Rayner Cemetery.  The access road and the entrance to the cemetery both seemed to be in reasonable shape, so it seems that, in spite of its neglected condition, the cemetery did have at least somewhat regular visitors.  As I noted above, all of the other cemeteries I visited on my trip were well cared for.  They were also fenced off, although, because they are not large, one could still get close enough to read and photograph many interesting grave markers.  But this had, to the right of the gate, a small revolving door-type entrance to let people in, so I went in.

A photograph of the family burial site above taken by me on October 31, 1999 from an identical vantage point.  Things are virtually unchanged after 15 years except for the little, rounded tombstone seen in the upper photo in the middle of the burial site.  That tombstone is still there (see below), but it had fallen over.  I did not think I should start fooling around and stand things up again, but it seemed sad that no one else would tend to these stones.  I found a number that had fallen over.  Note also the general deterioration of the stone wall surrounding the site as well as the continued growth of brush around it.  The large, dead, bent over tree trunk in the foreground in the first picture is still there, but it has been cut back (whether naturally or by human intervention, I don't know). 

This upper of these two photos is of the fallen-over tombstone that is standing upright in the center of the burial site in the 1984 picture above.  Reading the inscription, one can see that the gravestone is for a child, William Cooper McClaren, born September 25, 1884 and died March 6, 1890.  His age of 5 years and 5 months is written at the bottom.   The larger stone in the burial is for his mother, M. A. McClaren, who died at the age of 33 in 1891, one year after her son died.  There are tributes to both William and his mother at Find A Grave.

The lower photo here is of one of the few tall tombstones that hadn't fallen over.

I noted that a large number of the other graves were for children and, in one place, there is a line of five small tombstones (see photo below), all apparently the children of the same couple, and all having died within a few days or weeks of birth in the 1890s.  It was an incredibly sad scene.  The stones themselves, while tilted and falling, were still well preserved with easy to read inscriptions. 

The upper photo here is of those five small children's graves I mentioned above.  It was the saddest thing.  I looked around, but I couldn't find the graves of the parents.

The lower photo is of a tombstone that has fallen over.  It is for a child who was named Carl Lanier.  He was 11 years old when he was bitten by a rattlesnake and later died in spite of his parents' heroic efforts to get him to a doctor in nearby Anson, Texas.  The horses were run so hard that they died as well.  His story is also at Find A Grave. 

A completely fallen-apart burial site (upper photo).  The metal fencing is rusted and falling down.  The graves are completely obscured.