Bluffton News

You can't blame Texans for flocking lakeside during our blistering Texas summers.

In this Oct. 5, 2011 photo, a child's grave site, normally at least 20 to 30 feet underwater, has joined other remnants of old Bluffton, Texas, resurfacing on the now dry, sandy lake near Bluffton, as the Texas drought shrinks the state's largest inland lake.

In this Oct. 5, 2011 photo, a child's grave site, normally at least 20 to 30 feet underwater, has joined other remnants of old Bluffton, Texas, resurfacing on the now dry, sandy lake near Bluffton, as the Texas drought shrinks the state's largest inland lake.

Johnny C. Parks died two days before his first birthday more than a century ago.

BLUFFTON, Texas - There is not much left of Bluffton, Texas circa 1854, but for one man, it holds a personal past.