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Davis Cemetery
Henderson County Texas


This cemetery has not been enumerated yet. If you would like to volunteer to enumerate this cemetery, please contact Bunny Freeman or Holli Boone Kees.


History of the Cemetery

Directions to the Cemetery

Transciption

Historical Marker

Photos

Veterans of this Cemetery

Contact Information

 

 


History of the Cemetery

If you have any information about this cemetery..please contact Bunny Freeman or Holli Boone Kees


Directions To

From the Courthouse in Athens take Highway 175 east approximately 6.6 miles to the old Baxter Store.

Turn right on County Road 4511 and go approximately 1.7 miles and look to the left to find the brick monument which marks the entrance.



Enumeration

Transcriber Needed for this Cemetery

 

Some Surnames from this Cemetery

Adams Avant Baker Bargeron Bell Bocelia Blount Bridges Broom Brown Browning Burgamy

Butt Campbell Cantrell Cantrell Carnes Chambers Clark Cleveland Cook Cooper

Corder Cur Cure Daniel Daves DeHart Denton Deupree Drew Dupree Elliott Etheridge

Eustace Featherston Ferrell Forester Foster Frizzell Fuller Gaines Gauntt George Glenn

Goodman Graham Griffen Hancock Harris Harrison Hastings Henry Hester Holland

Holloway Hosch Huggins Jackson January Jenkins Jepson Johnson Jones Kane King

Kirk Knight LaFaitt Lambright LaRue Lightfoot Malone Marin Massey Matthews May

McCollum McCool Mershow Miller Mills Mills Mitchell Mordica Morgan Moss

Muckleroy Muhurin Murray Neely Nelson Norris Nugent O'Dell Oldham O'Neal Ormand

Owen Parmer Patton Paulk Penry Perdue Perkins Perry Phillpott Powell Price Ratcliff

Ray Reeder Reeves Richardson Roberson Rogers Schumacher Seagroves Simmons

Slagle Smiley Smith Spencer Stalter Steel Stenson Stephens Stogner Swiney Swinney

Teague Thomas Thompkins Thompson Tiner Turner VanZandt Walker Wallace Warren

Webb William Williams Wilson Wyrick




This cemetery recorded in Volume II from the Cemetery Records of Henderson County Texas.



The Henderson County Historical Commission's Cemetery Records Volume II

Click on link to see how you can order this book




Historical Marker

Not Available






 

 

Photos by Kathryn Wilson

 

 

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Photo 2

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Photo 4

Photo 5


Photos

Photos courtesy of Holli Boone Kees

 











James A. McCool b. 1875 d. 1959 and Nannie E. McCool b. 1884 d. 193?



Lee Tiner b. 1881-1960



Sarah Estelle Tine b. 1886 d. 1977



Photos courtesy of Laura Calvin
 
Hazel Lorene Blount 13 Jan 1925 - 06 Aug 1998 (D/0 Jackson Loyd & Effie Lee Drew Wilson)
Myra Elizabeth Drew 28 Jan 1874 - 05 May 1937 (D/O Frank & Mary Barker Copeland)
Verna Mae Drew 28 May 1902 - 10 Jan 2002 (D/O William Sutton & Loving Ann Amanda Cowan Warren)
Orbin Horace Drew 18 Aug 1900 - 28 Dec 1972 (S/O George & Myra Copeland Drew)
Effie Lee Drew Tores 07 Jul 1903 - 12 Jun 2007 (D/O George & Myra Copeland Drew)
Joseph Azznor Tores 15 Jan 1895 - 18 Jun 1969
Submitted by Peggy Trammell Allen, Photos courtesy of Peggy Trammell Allen, July 2007
 

Douglas Scott Anding 1969-1989
J. M. Knight 1859- 1921
Sallie Knight 1878- 1916
Mattie K. Knight 5 Dec 1869 - 29 Apr 1962
Kindred K. Knight 5 Jan 1843 - 4 Jun 1923 4th TX CAV CSA

To give credit where credit is due...would the person who sent these pictures please email me at Holli Boone Kees, so that we can get you credited for posting this information and pictures.


John D. Perkins  4 May 1895- 28 Oct 1949  WWI PVT Tex 306 INF 90th Div 

son of Jabe P. & Juliann P. (Graham) Perkins--photo and information submitted by Mary L. Prewitt



Jabe P. Perkins 6 Mar 1861 30 June 1930

Julia A. (Graham) Perkins 12 Feb 1860 3 Apr 1926

wife of Jabe P. Perkins photo and information submitted by Mary L. Prewitt



Haskell Lee Prewitt 1 Aug 1913 5 Aug 1993 PVT US Army Lt. Col. 103 Battalion Texas State Guards

son of Haskell & Ura Lee (Brown) Prewitt of Pottsboro Grayson Co., Tx. photo and information submitted by Mary L. Prewitt



Photo 2photo and information submitted by Mary L. Prewitt



Ella Frank (Perkins) Prewitt 31 Mar 1923 4 Dec 2002

daughter of Hilyard Washington and Nancy Frances (Burr) Perkins--wife of Haskell Lee Prewitt

photo and information submitted by Mary L. Prewitt



Joe Jabe Perkins 25 Jun 1895 17 May 1960 WWI PVT Tex Co D 129th Inf

son of Jabe P. & Juliann (Graham) Perkins

photo and information submitted by Mary L. Prewitt



Hilyard Washington Perkins 31 Jul 1885 27 Jan 1962

son of Jabe P. & Juliann (Graham) Perkins

photo and information submitted by Mary L. Prewitt



Nancy Frances (Burr) Perkins 23 Jan 1901 8 Jan 1985

wife of Hilyard Washington Perkins

photo and information submitted by Mary L. Prewitt



Marlin D. Perkins 15 Jun 1923 24 May 1964 WWII SGT SVC Btry 8 Fld. ARTU BN.

photo and information submitted by Mary L. Prewitt



 


Photos by Mary L. Prewitt

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3


Veterans

Names with First, Middle, Last have photos attached--names with Last, First Middle have no photos as of yet

Richardson. Claborn W.
February 10 1888 March 26 1969
US Navy PFC TX

Rogers, Harry Thurber
October 9 1893 February 26 1959
WW I US Navy Tex F2

Harris, D. B.
April 10 1918
CSA Tex CAV

L. T. Perkins
July 7 1925 July 12 1944
WWII PVT Tex 116th Inf
photo courtesy of Laura Calvin

Lambright, Jeff
August 19 1888 December 1 1962
PVT Co C 143 Inf 26th Div

Thomas, Reagan R.
February 2 1911 August 29 1968
WWII PVT Co A 187 Eng Avn BN

Joseph D. Simmons
March 17 1890 December 23 1968
WW I COL. HQ Co 359th Inf 90th Div
Photo courtesy of Laura Calvin

Burgamy, Laurence
August 14 1916 July 18 1965
WWII Tex Co A 18th Armed Inf Bn.

Bargeron, Doy F.
October 18 1920 December 19 1965
WWII PFC GA 32nd Field Art. Bn.

Richardson, French
March 30 1893 April 14 1964
WW I Btry E 133rd Field Arty.

Thompkins, William
no dates no dates
CSA PVT 13th La. Inf.

Joe Jabe Perkins
June 25 1895 May 17 1960
WW I PVT Tex Co D 129th Inf

Nugent, Charles R.
September 11 1922 May 30 1944
WWII US Coast Guard FIC Tex Res.

Nugent, Nelson
October 19 1844 July 26 1912
CSA Co A, Miss M. T. D. Rifles

Corder, Rubin Franklin
November 23 1897 May 12 1933
WW I PVT Tex 143rd Inf 36th Div

Malone, James E.
December 21 1927 December 13 1965
WWII Corp. Tex 112 Inf Div

Bocella, Ralph
no dates February 18 1940
CSA PVT 1/C 43 PA Inf.

Van Zandt, George S.
December 24 1887 July 6 1954
WW I PVT 144 Inf 36 Div

Wyrick, J. V.
February 1 1846 February 10 1930
CSA Co H SCV

Holloway, John Reagan
no dates January 9 1919
PVT Tex 108 Eng. 33rd Div

Cure, George W.
May 16 1918 June 13 1965
WWII US Army TEC 5

Mills, Edward L.
November 28 1910 March 9 1966
WWII PFC 110 Co Bn 335 Inf BSM PH

Corder, David Preston
August 29 1893 1961
WW I PVT 39 Balloon Air SVC

Marlin Perkins
June 15 1923 May 24 1964
WWII SGT SVC Btry 8 Fld, ARTU Bn.

John D. Perkins
May 4 1895 October 28 1949
WW I PVT Tex 306 Inf 90th Div

Arlie D. Perry
22 Feb 1925 - 11 ?, 1961
California S2 USNR WWII
Photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

Aubary Cecil Ward
10 Mar 1924 - 17 Sep 198?
US Navy WWII
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

Barner Lloyd Lightfoot
US Army WW?
photo provided by Laura Calvin

Carl W. Perkins
1923 - 1985
TEC 4 US Army WWII
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

Harry Tracy Perry
10 ? 1893 - 21 Nov 1971
TX PFC Co E 143 Inf WW I
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

Howard C. Martin
23 Nov 1915 - 1 mar 1992
SF 3 US Navy WWII
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

Johnny Dean Perry
21 Oct 1948 - 6 Oct 1982
SP5 US Army Vietnam
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

Joseph Dunsavage
23 Feb 1941 - ? Oct 1987
RM 2 US Navy
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

Kindred K. Knight
5 Jan 1843 - 4 Jun 1923
Texas SGT Co F 4 REGT Tex Cav CSA
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

Max Wayne O'Neal
23 Nov 1933 - 4 Jan 199?
SP3 US Army
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

Nelson E. Johnson
dates unreadable
TX TSGT Army Air Force WWII
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

Oscar Eugene Matney
22 Jul 1916 - 1 Nov 1986
CPL US Army WWII
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

Reagan R. Thomas
2 Feb 1911 - 29 Aug 1968
California PFC Co A 187 Eng Avn BN WWII
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

William F. Lightfoot
11 Aug 1929 - 6 Sep 1999
US Marine Corps Korea/Vietnam
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

William Isaac Perkins
25 Jan 1902 - 17 Jan 1978
PVT US Army WWII
photo and info provided by Laura Calvin

 

Veteran information provided by Holli Boone Kees unless otherwise stated






Cemetery Contact Information





Betty Hollowell 903-675-5250




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