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Tarrant County, TXGenWeb Ayres Cemetery
Inventoried February 2002
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Ayres Cemetery is located in east Fort Worth in the 2500 block of
Scott Street one block west of Beach Street and a block south of Interstate
30. Today it is in the middle of a motel parking lot. Only an area
approximately 100 ft. by 100 ft. survived the paving. The remainder of the
original two acres is covered, along with an unknown number of graves. The
present day cemetery is divided into three adjoining fenced areas.
Headstone photographs are located in the Photo Gallery. The first area appears to contain only three individually marked graves.
The second area contains four marked graves. A field stone appears to mark one other.
The third area contains five marked graves while field stones mark five other apparent burials.
A medallion on William A. Sanderson's grave identifies him as a Citizen of the Republic of Texas. There is also a historical marker at the base of his monument. The text from that marker is found later on this page. Weldon Hudson copied the cemetery in 1996 and provided an inventory which was printed in the November 1996 issue of Footprints, the quarterly publication of the Fort Worth Genealogical Society. The inventory included the following paragraph which is reprinted here with permission. In 1862 Benjamin Patton Ayers (ca 1801-1862) and his wife Emily Cozart (ca 1811-1863) bought a 320 acre farm and set aside two acres on this hillside as a family cemetery. Ayers, who served as the second County Clerk and helped organize Fort Worth Christian Church, was the first to be buried here. An unknown number of graves, which lie outside the fenced family plot, include victims of spring fever and the Trinity River floods. None of their fieldstones have survived. William Alfred Sanderson, a native of England, came to Texas in 1841 and settled in Tarrant County with his wife Isabella Frances Ayers. A farmer and stock raiser, he was a charter member of the First Christian Church of Fort Worth, and served as a Justice of the Peace.
Historical Markers Located There:
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