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JERRY DEAL [iconoclastic@worldnet.att.net] HAS ADOPTED THIS CEMETERY

This cemetery, located on the Old George Dunn home place outside of Wheelock that he and his family settled when they first came to Texas, covers about half an acre.

An historic marker reads: "Started in pioneer era on land of James and Isabella Caufield Dunn, who with 8 other families came from Ireland to America in 1821, living first in Charleston, SC, then in Boligee, AL. In Dec. 1833 they began trek to colony of Sterling C. Robertson by ox-wagons and carryalls. With the Dunns were families of Henry Caufield, Letitia Ellis and her daughter Elizabeth Watson, Henry and William Fullerton, Hugh and William Henry, the widow McMillan, and the Youngs. Burial of infant of James and Isabella Dunn (1836) opened this cemetery, used ever since by heirs of the pioneers." (#10916/1972)

ADAIR, JOHN, 7.11.1841 - 11.15.1848, b Boligee, Greene County, AL

CLARK, L. H., 06.17.1812 – 07.13.1888, w M. A.

CLARK, M. A., 02.25.1820 – 09.05.1888, h L. H. Clark

DUNN, A. S., (infant), c James & Isabella Caufield Dunn

DUNN, DAVID J., 12.04.1854 – 07.22.1855

DUNN, ISABELLA CAUFIELD, 12.24.1797 – 08.23.1863, b Ireland, d Henry Sr. & Mary Castle Caufield, h James Dunn

DUNN, J. A., (infant), c James & Isabella Caufield Dunn

DUNN, JAMES, 11.21.1793 – 08.26.1851, d Ireland, w Isabella Caufield

FULLERTON, JOHN HENRY SR., 1775 – 1843, b Belfast, Ireland, w Sarah Caulfield

FULLERTON, SARAH CAULFIELD, 1790 – 1856, b Belfast, Ireland, d Henry Sr. & Mary Castle Caulfield, h John Henry Fullerton, Sr.

MCMILLAN, ANN, 1790 - 1857

MCMILLAN, ANN, 1832 - 1870, first wife of George McMillan (son of Ann McMillan 1790 - 1857)

MOSS, H. W., 11.11.1870 – 08.08.1879, s William B. & Letitia A. Watson Moss (Letitia was the daughter of James & Elizabeth Caufield Ellis Watson)

MOSS, JAMES L., 10.20.1840 – 11.17.1882, w Jane Pearce

MOSS, JANE PEARCE, 03.25.1850 – 03.08.1892, h James L. Moss

MOSS, WILLIAM B., 07.31.1833 – 05.30.1882, w Letitia A. Watson

PRYOR, CARSON, 08.22.1923 – 08.22.1974

STUART, A., ? - ?

STUART, MARY YOUNG ADAIR, 1.18.1814 – 5.8.1883, b Ireland, d John & Mary Dunn Young, h1 John Adair, m 4.21.1836, h2 Wendal J. B. Stuart

STUART, RANDALL W. J. B., 1809 – 1866

STUART, W. R., ? - ?

STUART, WILLIAM STEPHENSON, 5.17.1798 - 1888, b Larne Antrim County, Ireland

WATSON, E. W., ? - ?

WATSON, ELIZA, 3.6.1818 - 6.18.1869, b Belfast, Ireland

WATSON, J. W., ? - ?

WATSON, L. J. W. (at foot of a big Watson marker that has fallen over)

WATSON, LAURA J., 02.10.1855 – 04.18.1918, d James & Elizabeth Ellis Watson

YOUNG, JOHN, about 1784 - 1855, b Ireland, w Mary Dunn

YOUNG, JOHN, ? - ?, sandstone marker with  "J. Y."

YOUNG, MARY, ? - ?, sandstone marker with  "M.Y."

YOUNG, MARY DUNN, about 1790 - 1863, b Ireland, sister of James Dunn, h John Young, m in Ireland

YOUNG, SARAH, ? - ?, sandstone marker with "S. Y."

YOUNG, SARAH J., 7.5.1819 - 1866, b Ireland, d John & Mary Dunn Young

Note from Roberta Powell: "The person I believe to be buried at the Old Dunn Cemetery is DAVID GEORGE CAUFIELD, son of Thomas Caufield who married Mary Ann Watson. He was a nephew of Isabella Caufield Dunn and Sarah Fullerton. He was born 1.1.1835, in Boligee, Greene County, AL, and died July 27, 1857 at Wheelock. He was single. His sister, Mary Jane, who had married William Ewing Young on April 1, 1857, was living in the Josephus Cavitt home at the time. I feel certain he died at their home."

The above list is partially based upon information contained in Tombstone Inscriptions Of Robertson County, Texas
by Inez Boswell Biggerstaff, 19 leaves, 28 cm, published between 1945 & 1968.  It is also partially based upon information contained in the out-of-print book Cemeteries In Robertson County, Texas by Verna Corn Floyd and Vernelle Corn, copyright 1980, D. Armstrong Co., Inc., Printers/Publishers, Houston, Texas.  Updates, additions, and corrections have been made as a result of extensive cemetery and family history research and the invaluable assistance of relatives of people buried in this cemetery.