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Your tombstone stands among the rest;
In this field of green.
The name and date are chiseled out
For all the world to see.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I 'd exist,
You died long before I was born.
Yet we are of one, you and I,
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the life you lived
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
Anonymous [Submitted by Laurie Morris]
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[Old] Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery
The Old Zion AME Church building is vacant at this time. It’s not too far from St. Josephs and Stoneham Ville Church. From 105 take Spur 234 South, then CO 304 to C0 357 the both the cemetery and church will be on the right.
Directions submitted by Gary Bundage
The Boney Place Cemetery
Directions: From Bedias go east on Hwy 1696. Turn left (north) on CR 134, go 2.5 miles. Turn left (west) on CR 132, continue about 0.5 mile. Cemetery is on left on private property.
Submitted by Melba Boney Wells.
Three graves enclosed by a chain linked fence erected by Walter Ethol Boney, son of Byrd Boney and Susan Rhoda Bracewell.
BONEY, Byrd William
July 9, 1858 Lauderdale Co., MS.
April 8, 1903 Cotton, Grimes Co., TX (small pox)
Son of Felix Boney and Nancy Williams
BONEY, S. R. (Susan Rhoda Bracewell) 2nd wife of Byrd
Nov. 9, 1870 LA
Aug. 11, 1920, Cotton, Grimes Co., TX
Daughter of James Bracewell and Elizabeth ____
BONEY, Nancy
March 1822 Wilmington, N. C.
Sept. 10, 1903, Cotton, Grimes Co., TX
Mother of Byrd William Boney and
Daughter of G. F. Byrd Williams and Martha Wells
No Marker-only a stone
Note: Byrd Boney's 1st wife, Julia Ann Stutts, daughter of George Stutts and Mrs. Penny Jones Lindzey Stutts, is buried in Carter Cemetery.
Cross Cemetery
Located ¼ mile west of Hwy 39 on Grimes Co Rd 102. Submitted by Sharon Buckley.
BYRNE, Hugh Bruce - Jan. 8, 1921 - July 28, 1973
BAKER, A.E. "Toppie" (Father) - Oct 28, 1925 - July 19, 1971
BAKER, Minnie A. - Mar 29, 1904 - June 21, 1928
HYATT, Hurston D. (Son) - Dec 15, 1929 - Apr 26, 1977
HYATT, Jewell M. (Mother) - March 1, 1910
GILLEO, Eva C. (AYERS) - May 12, 1898 - June 20, 1971 (*submitter's note -Eva was mother of Glenwood W. WILSON and sister of Katie B. WILSON, both below)
MOUSER, Fred T. - Feb 9, 1882 - Apr 16, 1959
MULLENAX, Ethel L. - Dec 28, 1906
MULLENAX, Ruben E. - June 27, 1900 - Sept 2, 1970
SANDERS, Pearl I. - Nov 9, 1892 - Feb 10, 1978
SANDERS, Thompson B. - Dec 8, 1889 - May 3, 1962, T. Cp. C. H. 326 Infantry, WWI Dec 8, 1889 - May 3, 1962
WARE, Henry Oscar - Sept 9, 1890 - June 19, 1964
WARE, Ottie Almedia - Sept 24, 1896 - Sept 13, 1981
WARE, Uhland O. - 1914-1977, SSgt US Air Force, WWI, Korea
WILSON, Glenwood W. - July 21, 1920 - Mar 6, 1971, TX S1 US NR WWII
WILSON, Emma K. - Nov 30, 1920 - Oct 4, 1967 (*submitters note - Emma was wife of Glenwood W. WILSON, she was born Emma Katherine HUTH of Illinois)
WILSON, Katie - unmarked (*submitters note - Katie Beatrice (AYERS) Wilson dates are Sept 5, 1896 - Dec 4, 1981; she was sister of Eva C. (AYERS) GILLEO, above)
McAlpine Cemetery
Historical Marker 8600
White Hall, Texas
Erected 1993
From the intersection of FM 362 and CR 305 in White Hall, take CR 305 E approx. .4 miles to White Hall-Fairview Cemetery Rd., then S on cemetery road approx. .2 miles to cemetery.
About 1851 North Carolina native Dugald McAlpine (1795-1876) moved here to the pioneer community of Wallace's Prairie and purchased a large tract of land. Adjacent to his property and at this location were four burial sites associated with his neighbor's nearby "Alta Vista" (Spanish for Fair View) farm and farmhouse. McAlpine eventually bought Alta Vista and in 1866 his relative, Malcomb McAlpine, was the first of many McAlpines to be buried here. In 1873 the community's name was changed to Whitehall for George White, the postmaster at that time. Before his burial here in 1876, McAlpine fenced an area around the grave sites for use as a family graveyard. In 1886 descendants of McAlpine deeded three acres containing the graveyard for cemetery purposes. Eventually community burials began outside of the fenced McAlpine section on land donated by a Mr. Johnson. Descendants of people buried here organized and formed the Fairview Cemetery Association in 1949; the name of the association was later changed to the Whitehall-Fairview Cemetery Association. Burials here include former slaves, McAlpine family members, area civic leaders, and veterans of wars ranging from the Civil War to the Vietnam Conflict.
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Email from Robert L. Smith [Rls1112@aol.com]
"... It is strongly believed that you have an 'Old 300' buried in that cemetery.
It is believed that the four burial sites that are mentioned in the write-up for the McAlpine Cemetery are of Caleb WALLACE, his daughter Martha Ann Wallace MCLAUGHLIN and maybe his father James WALLACE and Martha 'Patsy' WALLACE, James' wife.
Caleb WALLACE was issued his land patent on May 14, 1828. Caleb WALLACE died on April 13, 1844. His wife Elvira, remarried a Joseph Taylor MARSHALL in 1845. The WALLACE heirs sold Dugald MCALPINE nearly 800 acres of the headright of Caleb WALLACE's league in 1858. Elvira MARSHALL and her husband then sold MCALPINE their portion which included the homestead about the same time and moved to Navarro County. If the four burial sites that were close to the homesite that eventually became the cemetery, then it is almost a certainty that they were of Caleb WALLACE "Old 300", his daughter and maybe his father and mother. His father James and his wife came to Texas in 1826 and I have a copy of their Spanish land grant. . ."
Ratliff Cemetery
Take Highway 30 east out of Roan's Prairie. Turn right onto FM 2562 and go to County Road 219.At first house on your left (large white house) turn right onto a cattle guard into Mr. Bracewell's pasture. About 1.7 miles to cemetery. Stop first at Mr. Bracewell's house for permission to cross his property.
RATLIFF, Mary Ana, b. 22 Jun 1826 - d. 13 Apr 1912
RATLIFF, Lorenzo M., d. 24 Oct 1875; Age 85 years, 10 months, 13 days
RATLIFF, Mary Ann, b. 21 Apr 1819 - d. 03 Mar 1866
RATLIFF, Andrew J., b. 14 Feb 1857 - d. 13 Feb 1873
RATLIFF, Martin L., b. 05 Apr 1851 - d. 06 Jul 1879
RATLIFF, Lorenzo Dow, b. 04 May 1868 - d. 15 Nov 1903
RATLIFF, Infant
RATLIFF, Josephine
RATLIFF, Ellen
Buried on or near a hill which was the site of Joshua Hadley's fort is the burial place of Joshua HADLEY, b. 1786 - d. 1845. Another probable burial here is his first wife, Obedience Grantham HADLEY, b. ca 1800 - d. 1839.
Stoneham Cemetery
Historical Marker 8618
Stoneham, Texas
Erected 1978
From Stoneham take SH 105 W approx. 1 mile to Stoneham Cemetery Rd.; then N on cemetery road approx. .1 mile to cemetery entrance.
Franklin Jarvis Greenwood (1804-1882), who came to Texas in 1829, donated land for this cemetery. It was originally called "High Point" for a nearby settlement. The first known interments were Greenwood's daughters Mary Anne (b. 1840) and Harriet. They died in 1856 of cholera. Graves of yellow fever victims were specially marked to avoid spread of the epidemic. Many burials are descendants of Stephen F. Austin colonists. The name of the cemetery and town changed to "Stoneham" after John H. Stoneham (1829-1894) gave land for the railroad in 1879.
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