Darlington Cemetery
230 W Miller St, Dilley
GPS Coords: 28.670416, -99.174065
This cemetery is adjacent to the Dilley Community General Hospital.
Traveling north on IH 35 S, get off at Exit 84 and turn right onto Miller.
Darlington was the town's name until 1896 when it was officially changed to Dilley. This cemetery was listed as "Unknown Cemetery" on this site for many, many years.
I believe that at one time this was a large cemetery (approximately 1.50 acres) in size. Perhaps larger if comments received from others are true. There were only 22 graves that could be found with most of them enclosed with the "old time" Iron Fences. The few that were not enclosed with a fence had a significant head stone. I believe there are many more graves at this site because of the distance and locations of the graves we found. However since there were no more markers or stones we will never know. There is a helicopter pad in the middle of this graveyard for medical emergencies at the Dilley Community Hospital. Inventory and photos of these graves were collected by Joe Taffola, and John Hawley on 3-31-2004. Of the graves we found, the first known burial was December 1895 and the last was April 1968. [I have added two later DeWoody burials.]
| Name | Birth | Death | Comments/Inscriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCKOW, J.W. | 10 Aug 1810 | 22 Dec 1895 | John William |
| BURKINS, Lucille Naomi | 26 Sep 1891 | 29 Jan 1982 | |
| DeWOODY, Charles C | 15 Oct 1894 | 14 Mar 1981 | |
| DeWOODY, Hattie | 12 Oct 1882 | 22 Jul 1906 | |
| DeWOODY, James T. | 28 Dec 1883 | 13 Jul 1906 | |
| DeWOODY, Lovenia | 1 Jun 1888 | 25 Apr 1968 | |
| DeWOODY, Lydia | 28 Nov 1874 | 18 Mar 1920 | |
| DeWOODY, M. M. | 31 Dec 1853 | 2 Feb 1940 | Margaret Maria Ward |
| DeWOODY, Minerva | 28 Jun 1886 | 25 Mar 1941 | |
| DeWOODY, T.V. | 17 Dec 1850 | 8 May 1937 | Thomas Valentine |
| FINCH, Sallie | 1862 | 28 Oct 1919 | Sarah A. Mills; age 57 |
| FINCH, Willie Edner | 27 Jul 1887 | 17 Feb 1904 | |
| GRAVELL J. A. | 31 Mar 1867 | 2 Dec 1920 | John Andrew |
| HARRIS, Annie E. | 23 Mar 1842 | 31 Mar 1931 | d/o J.W. Buckow, w/o William David Harris |
| HARRIS, William | 4 Dec 1831 | 9 Feb 1907 | William David |
| MAYES, James E. | 17 Dec 1877 | 18 Jul 1906 | Brother |
| MILLS, H. H. | 13 Jan 1820 | 15 Jan 1906 | Henry Harrison |
| MILLS, M. A. | 8 May 1825 | no death date on stone; Mary Alice Brown | |
| PATTESON, Dorothy | 7 Jun 1911 | 1 Jan 1912 | |
| RUMFIELD, Mrs F M | 2 Dec 1868 | 25 Feb 1907 | Julia Cornelia A Prescott |
| SCROGGS, Billie | 25 Apr 1897 | 1 Jul 1903 | Billie Calvin |
| SCROGGS, Minnie | 2 Dec 1892 | 31 Dec 1902 | Minnie May |
| SPRUILL, A.J. | 26 Dec 1843 | 31 Dec 1904 | Company B, 9th Miss. Btl, Confederate States of America; Andrew Jackson |
| WERNETTE, Ada Evelyn | 20 Mar 1903 | 16 Feb 1907 |