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These pages were created by Ann Onstad, who has taken great effort to type these cemetery inventories from the information on file with the Denton County Historical Commission. Recently, Ann was gracious enough to allow her work to be moved to the Denton County GenWeb site.

Ann dedicates these pages to Richard Tarver, who passed in September 1998, in honor of his fine volunteer efforts as chairperson of the Denton County Historical Commission Cemetery Committee.

The Denton County Historical Commission Cemetery Committee surveys all known cemeteries in the county, active and abandoned. The results are kept in a Master Index File in the Courthouse on the Square. This file is available to anyone doing research.

The committee is continually locating cemeteries that have been forgotten (lost) and making this data a matter of record. Your assistance is appreciated in locating any cemeteries known by you so the files can be updated.

In addition, the DCHC has the exact location and some history of each cemetery and instructions for easy location. The known cemeteries are also filed by precinct with maps available of cemetery locations within each precinct. The DCHC, in conjunction with the County Probation Department, Public Works Department and the Sheriff's Department, cleans and maintains abandoned cemeteries throughout the county.

In the 1950's Lake Lewisville was enlarged and several abandoned cemeteries were moved to prevent them from being covered by water. In the early 1980's Lake Ray Roberts was established and several cemeteries, both active and abandoned were also moved to different locations.

For additional information or assistance please call the DCHC Office at (940)565-8697, (940) 565-8693 or (800) 246-3189.

Denton County Cemetery Survey Cemetery Committee:
Phoebe Tarver, Committee Chairperson
Olive Stephens and Kerri Burnside

Note: Some of the cemeteries listed are linked to cemetery rosters. We are in the process of adding new rosters.

a list of which precinct each cemetery is in.

COE - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cemeteries not found or lost
1. Antioch - Lost
16. County Poor Farm - Lost
56. Kendricks (Wire Road) - Not Found
60. King family #2 - Not Found
72. Morris (Now under water) - Lost

Special thanks to Bruce J. Zak & Luisa Browning for scanning the abandoned cemeteries.

MILITARY LISTINGS - A list started to memorialize military gravestones

    CEMETERIES
  1. Antioch - Lost
  2. Bates Family - Abandoned
  3. Belew
  4. Bishop Mason Mausoleum - Active
  5. Blue mound - Active
  6. Bolivar - Active
  7. Boone Family - Abandoned
  8. Brier Family - Abandoned
  9. Bridges - Abandoned
  10. Cassady - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 44)
  11. Champion - Active (Moved by COE to 65)
  12. Chinns Chapel - Active
  13. Clark - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 44)
  14. Conway - Abandoned
  15. Cooper Creek - Active
  16. County Poor Farm - Lost
  17. Craven - Abandoned
  18. Crutchfield - Abandoned
  19. Dalton (Old Dalton) - Active
  20. Denton, John B. - Courthouse Lawn
  21. Denton State School - Active
  22. Dickson - Abandoned
  23. Duck Creek - Abandoned
  24. Dudley - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 79)
  25. Dunham - Abandoned
  26. Dyer - Active (Moved by COE to present location)
  27. Eakins - Active
  28. Eason-Gray - Abandoned
  29. Elizabethtown - Active OFF-SITE
  30. Erwin - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 79)
  31. Flower Mound - Active
  32. Foster family - Abandoned
  33. Fox Family - Active
  34. Furneaux - Active - Incomplete
  35. Garza - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 79)
  36. Gober-Wright - Abandoned
  37. Good Hope - Active
  38. Grace-Smith - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 62)
  39. Graham (Argyle) - Active
  40. Graham-Evans - Abandoned
  41. Green Valley - Active
  42. Gribble Springs - Active
  43. Harpers - Abandoned (moved by COE to 62)
  44. Harrington - Abandoned
  45. Harris - Abandoned
  46. Hillside - Abandoned
  47. Indian Burial Ground - Abandoned
  48. IOOF - Denton - Active Denton County Memorial Park?
  49. IOOF Roanoke - Active
  50. Jackie Davis - Abandoned (Moved by CE to 3,42,85,98 & 113)
  51. Jackson - Active
  52. Jeter Family - Abandoned
  53. Jones - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 85 & 98)
  54. Justin - Active
  55. Kelsay - Abandoned
  56. Kendricks (Wire Road) - Abandoned
  57. Key Family/Schoolhouse - Abandoned
  58. King - Abandoned
  59. King Family #1 - Abandoned
  60. King Family #2 - Abandoned
  61. Knox - Abandoned OFF-SITE
  62. Landrum - Abandoned
  63. Little Elm - Active
  64. Lower Oak Grove (Lloyd) - Abandoned
  65. Lusk (part of Old Hall) - Active
  66. Macedonia (Mt. Olive) - Active
  67. Martin Oaks - Active (incomplete)
  68. McCombs - Abandoned
  69. McCurley - Active (Moved by COE to 79) (incomplete)
  70. McGill - Abandoned
  71. McKinney/Union Hill - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 79)
  72. Medlin - Active
  73. Morris (COE could not find; now under water)
  74. Mustang, aka Jackson - Abandoned
  75. Oak Grove - Active
  76. Oakwood - Active
  77. Oberchain - Active (Private)
  78. Old Alton - Active
  79. Old Ball - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 79)
  80. Old Hall - Active Second Listing for Old Hall Cemetery OFF-SITE
  81. Old Slave - Abandoned
  82. Old Spanish - Abandoned
  83. Old Stony, aka Green Family - Abandoned
  84. Pagetown - Abandoned
  85. Peace-Holmes - Abandoned
  86. Pilot Point Community - Active OFF-SITE
  87. Pilot Point Memorial - Active
  88. Plainview - Active
  89. Pollard-Gregory - Abandoned
  90. Prairie Mound - Active
  91. Ritter - Active
  92. Roberts (TWO cemeteries in Argyle) - Abandoned
  93. Rogers - Abandoned
  94. Roselawn (Denton County Memorial) - Active
  95. Round Grove - Active
  96. Rucker - Abandoned
  97. St. Thomas - Active
  98. Sams-Burnett-Mennerly - Abandoned OFF-SITE
  99. Sanger - Active OFF-SITE
  100. Shiloh - Bartonville - Active
  101. Shiloh - Corinth - Active
  102. Skinner - Abandoned Skinner Cemetery second listing OFF-SITE
  103. Smith (Lewisville) - Abandoned
  104. Smith (Denton/Collin County Line) - Abandoned
  105. Stony (Green) - Abandoned OFF-SITE
  106. Strickland - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 3,85 & 113)
  107. Strickland Family - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 85)
  108. Sublett - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 62)
  109. Swisher - Active
  110. Taylor - Abandoned
  111. Toll Town - Abandoned
  112. Trietch Family - Abandoned
  113. Trinity - Active
  114. Tyson - Active
  115. West Family - Abandoned (Moved by COE to 98)
  116. Wilson - Black Jack - Active
  117. Wolf Foster (Cleveland) - Abandoned
  118. Young Family - Abandoned
  119. Zion - Active