SHADY CEMETERY
Old abandoned cemetery, very overgrown with mesquite trees and weeds. There is evidence that there was a fence around the whole thing. Now three plots containing six of the nine discernable graves are fenced. From Seymour take Highway 277 to county road 436. It leaves the highway at an angle going almost due west at a large red brick house that is also abandoned. Follow this about 1 3/4 miles. The cemetery is on the back side of a tank dam in a clump of mesquite trees about 100 yards from the road. There is some evidence that there may have been other graves there also. Those marked in any way have been recorded.
1. Marshal Howell FRANKLIN wroght iron fence
Aug.14 1884
June 16 1907
2. Lena Ruth
dau of
H.J. & J. HENDERSON
Nov.14 1904
Feb. 17 1905
Hold her, O" Father in thine arms
And let her henceforth be
A messenger of love between
Our human hearts and thee.
3. Harvey
Harvey J. 2. & 3. Enclosed in nice pipe fence with bells on it.
Son of H.J. & J. HENDERSON
June 6 1906
Aug. 27 1909
4. Sleep in Jesus
Nanie Lee dau. Of
P.G. & F.A. BASDEN
born Jan. 6 1894
died Nov. 30 1905
There is no death in Heaven no fence
For they who gain that shore
Have won their immortality
And they can die no more.
BASDEN
5. OUR DARLING
Welcome Snyder stone broken--no fence
born
Jan. 8 1907
died
May 15 1909
BABY
6. HOPE
Ruby D. Dau. Of
W.T. & J.E.
MARIS
born
Feb. 11 1885
died
June 16 1903
7. Sandstone with no information
8. Peace Perfect Peace 6,7, & 8 has a rock curb and a chain link
Julie E. fence.
Wife of
W.T. MARIS
Born Nov. 29 1866
Died Feb. 10 1906
Our darling mother has gone before
To greet us on the Golden Shore.
9. Maurice son of stone is broken three ways--no fence
J.E. & Willie
McCLURE
born Feb 3, 1901
died June 2 1904
10. T.M. PRATT Masonic emblem on the other side. It is
1828--1909 only stone facing west.
This is all the discernable graves.
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