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I have checked the funeral home records for Foust Funeral Home in Grapevine
and Moore Funeral Home in Arlington. They, along with Lucas Funeral Home
in Grapevine, probably placed the majority of the burials at Bedford before
1970.
The oldest records of Moore Funeral Home in Arlington are now in the
Jenkins Garrett Collection in the Special Collections Division of the library
at the University of Texas at Arlington. The records prior to 1937 are
interspersed in journals with records of other Moore business ventures, and
have little or no personal information about the persons they buried. In
no instances is the cemetery of burial given before 1937. Beginning in 1937
the records are more complete, although for several years the clerk's handwriting
is clear but virtually unreadable in many instances.
The records of Foust Funeral Home in Grapevine begin in 1913, and are
in volumes stored at the funeral home on Main Street in Grapevine. In most
cases, they list at least the name of the cemetery used in each instance.
Later records are quite informative and complete.
This is a work in progress, but it still may be helpful for researchers.
I have not yet worked in the
records1 Mrs. Cushman listed for
other unaccounted-for stones.
1Refers
to: Cemeteries of Northeast Tarrant County by Evelyn D'Arcy
Cushman.
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Two following names on a double stone: |
Lee M. Hammond |
Nov. 15, 1869-Feb. 10, 1962 |
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Lillie A. Hammond |
Oct. 11, 1879-May 12, 1973 |
wife |
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"Lee M. Hammond went to school on this hill, taught school
forty-five years. School is out and the teacher is gone home."
Cushman in 1980 found a stone in this area with initials T.H.H. and no
dates.
Melanie Bennett brings to our
attention that Lee M. Hammond was cofounder of Arlington
College, now known as the University of Texas at Arlington. This information
can be found in an
article on
the Handbook of Texas Online. [Thank you to Lonestar for helping us to correct a broken link to this article.] |
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Three graves following in same lot, first two on same stone: |
William Hubert Fitch |
March 6, 1881-July 25, 1954 |
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Maude |
January 1, 1882-Apr 5 1958 |
wife |
Edna Loyce Fitch |
Feb. 3, 1903-Dec. 9, 1980 |
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Two graves on a double stone: |
Virgil D. Valentine |
1889-1961 |
IOOF member |
Ora L. Valentine |
1906-1994 |
wife |
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Marvin T. Cook |
Apr. 3, 1913-Feb. 5, 1971 |
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E. Cook |
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small, no data |
W. Campbell |
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small, no data |
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M. A. R. |
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footstone in east fence |
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Next two on a double stone: |
James Emmett "Pappy" Brazzell |
Feb. 23, 1921 |
married Jan. 23, 1942 |
Roxie Cannon "Mimi" Brazzell |
July 29, 1919- Dec. 2, 1993 |
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Next two on a double stone: |
Robert E. Cannon |
1905-1967 |
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Gladys Moore Cannon |
1905-1996 |
wife |
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Gladys Moore Cannon was the daughter of Jesse S. Moore,
who died in 1917, and thus a granddaughter of Milton Moore. |
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Next two on a double stone: |
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James W. Mixon |
Nov. 23, 1854-Feb. 19 1953 |
Mason |
Eugenia S. Mixon |
June 7, 1858-Oct. 24, 1936 |
wife - Eastern Star |
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James and Eugenia Mixon appear in the 1910 census living
"In And Near Bedford, Bedford and Euless road." He was born in Georgia to
a North Carolinian father and a Georgian mother. James and Eugenia had been
married 33 years (c1877), Eugenia had given birth to one child who was no
longer living in 1910. They operated a truck farm. Eugenia was born in Louisiana
to an father born in Illinois and a mother born in North Carolina. Also living
with them was Mr. Mixon's nephew, Luther D. Thomason, who was born about
1883 in Louisiana; his father was born in Alabama and his mother was born
in Louisiana. |
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Next two on a double stone: |
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Augustus F. Scott |
1875-1959 |
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(second stone Jan 28 1875-Oct 25 1959 "Gus") |
Mary E. Scott |
1874-1956 |
wife |
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Another stone in the same plot has: |
Augustus F. Scott |
Jan. 28, 1875-Oct. 25, 1959 |
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Betty French Scott |
Aug. 20, 1874-Apr. 15, 1956 |
wife |
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Adam Euless Cannon |
July 16, 1884-November 5, 1954 |
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Dona Lillian Cannon |
Sept. 19, 1887-Feb. 20, 1982 |
wife |
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Mac "Vic" Victor |
Sept. 10, 1919- |
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Hazel C. Victor |
Dec. 24, 1909-Jan. 4, 1991 |
wife |
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Marlow C. Jordan |
Nov. 13, 1914-Apr. 12, 1969 |
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Margie N. |
Dec. 25, 1921- |
wife - no death date on stone |
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Russell S. Cromer |
Apr 24, 1904-July 1, 1963 |
(Father) |
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Vola Davis O'Brian |
Sept. 15, 1918-Feb. 21, 1982 |
(Mother) |
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Hardin C. Davis |
July 5, 1894- July 14, 1945 |
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Amye |
July 27, 1894-Nov. 24, 1967 |
wife |
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adjacent but in a different lot: |
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Ruby Davis |
Feb. 1, 1905-Feb. 18, 1936 |
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Winnie G. Russell |
Oct. 5, 1945-Jan. 26, 1946 |
our baby |
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B. Felps |
Dec. 30, 1910-Dec. 6, 1970 |
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Foust Funeral Home's records show that B. Felps died at
St. Joseph's Hospital in Fort Worth. His residence was 501 East Weatherford,
Ft. Worth. He was an apartment manager, and had served in the U.S. Army during
World War II. His death occurred at 7 p.m. His funeral was held on December
8 at Pleasant Run Baptist Church in Colleyville; J. Williard Morrow of Fort
Worth presided. Mr. Felps had been a resident of Fort Worth for 28 years.
He died of a cerebral thrombosis suffered one week earlier; the contributary
causes were cerebral atherosclerosis and cerebral encepholomalacia. He was
divorced at the time of his death. His mother handled his funeral arrangements.
He was the son of Andy and Fannie (Cannon) Felps. |
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Andy W. Felps |
Feb. 28, 1882-June 16, 1964 |
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Fannie Cannon Felps |
Dec. 25, 1885-Apr. 30, 1974 |
wife - buried by mother |
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The records of J. E. Foust and Son Funeral Directors of
Grapevine contain a number of facts about Andy Felps. He died at his residence
at 501 E. Weatherford St. in Fort Worth. He was never in the military. He
was a retired farmer, landowner, and real estate speculator. His social security
number was 455-76-7534. His funeral was held at Bedford Church of Christ.
Vancil Wren officiated at the service. Felps and his father, George Felps,
were both natives of Lynchburg, Tennessee. His mother's name was unknown.
His cause of death was arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease of ten years
duration, with a secondary cause of generalized arteriosclerosis of fifteen
years. His funeral was held on June 18 at 2 p.m. |
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Trula Felps |
Aug. 26, 1904- |
no death date on stone |
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[dau. of Andy and Fannie Felps] |
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Thomas Harry Felps |
May 19, 1889-July 14, 1911 |
[son of George and Margaret] |
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George B. Felps |
Sept. 8, 1854-Sept. 30, 1940 |
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Margaret C. Felps |
Apr. 28, 1859-May 18, 1937 |
wife |
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According to information contained in his obituary, George
B. Felps came to Bedford about 1892. He was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee
on September 8, 1854. His parents were Thomas Felps and Mariah (Black) Felps.
His parents and their family appear in both the 1850 and 1860 censuses of
Lincoln County.
Margaret Catherine Felps's funeral service was held by Foust Funeral
Home of Grapevine. Her funeral record states that she was born April 28,
1859. She died May 18, 1937; the record states that she died at Bransford,
and was buried at Bedford on May 19. The funeral record also records a few
details of her funeral expenses.
George B. Felps's obituary appeared in The Grapevine Sun on Thursday,
October 3, 1940. The poor quality of the microfilm reproduction makes it
impossible to make a readable copy of it. It states that George died at the
home of his son, Andy Felps, near Bedford. His funeral was held at the Bedford
Baptist Church.
George Britton Felps's funeral service was held by Foust Funeral Home
of Grapevine. His funeral record there reflects that he was born September
8, 1854 in Tennessee, and was the son of two native Tennesseeans, Thomas
Felps and a Miss Black. He died Sept. 30, 1940. The record says he died at
Bransford, but his obituary in The Grapevine Sun says he died at the home
of his son, Andy Felps, near Bedford. George's funeral service was held on
October 2, 1940 and he was buried at Bedford Cemetery. He was widowed and
a retired farmer.
George was survived by three children: Andy Felps, a son B. Felps of
Bedford, and a daughter Trula Estill of Fort Worth. |
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J. C. Farrar |
Apr 14, 1865-Dec. 8, 1926 |
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E. Annie Phillips |
Feb. 23, 1869-Jan. 7, 1912 |
wife of J. C. Farrar |
Anna Farrar |
died January 7, 1912 |
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"Mrs. Anna Farrar, wife of Joe F. Farrar, died Sunday morning,
January 7th, at the family home after an illness of six months. Besides the
husband, two daughters survive. Mrs. Farrar was a member of the Methodist
church. Funeral service was held at 10 a.m. Monday at the residence of Rev.
D. L. Collie, followed by interment in Bedford Cemetery at 2 p.m." Arlington
Journal, Friday, January 12, 1912. |
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"Wilson" place marker set in a small family plot. Ground
appears to have had one burial, but no marker is present. Cushman found a
funeral home marker here for Bonnie Eller Wilson, Died 1961, aged 80-1-18. |
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T. A. Guss Farrar |
June 26, 1862-Dec. 16, 1913 |
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Jordan Jackson Reeves |
Apr. 19, 1844-Mar. 22, 1917 |
(Father) |
Mary A. Reeves |
Aug. 8, 1845-Mar. 14, 1913 |
wife - (Mother) |
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William W. Cromer |
Sept. 10, 1869-Apr. 16, 1949 |
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Vashti Fitch Cromer |
May 6, 1878-Sept. 29, 1960 |
wife |
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Odessa Cromer |
Oct. 16, 1900-Mar. 11, 1948 |
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Mattie C. Fitch |
1858-1942 |
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J. S. Fitch |
Feb. 2, 1849-Jan. 6, 1918 |
Mason |
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"Mr. J. S. Fitch, aged 69 years, died Sunday at his home
at Bedford and was buried Monday at Bedford, under the auspices of the Arlington
Masonic Lodge. Mr. Fitch is survived by his wife, two daughters, and one
son." Arlington Journal, Friday, January 18, 1918.
funeral home marker in same lot, no longer readable
adj Claude L. Trotter 1881-1945
William W. Cromer was born in Franklin County, Missouri on September
10, 1869. He was the son of Louis Clark Cromer (1842-1918) and his wife,
Nancy Cromer (1841-1938).
The two elder Cromers lie buried in Euless in Calloway Cemetery. Will
Cromer's paternal grandmother, Francis Webb, also came to Texas in the late
1860's and is buried in Southlake in the old Hood Cemetery.
Will Cromer married Vashti Fitch (May 6, 1878-Sept. 29, 1960), the daughter
of J. S. and Mattie C. Fitch of Bedford.
About 1914 the Cromers moved to Fort Worth.
W. W. Cromer's last home in Fort Worth was on the North Side at 2511
Prairie Avenue.
W. W. Cromer died in a hospital in Wichita Fallas on September 16, 1949.
His obituary obituary appeared in the Fort Worth Star Telegram on April 17,
1949, section 2, page 7. His funeral was held at 2 p.m. at Shannon's Chapel
in Fort Worth, and he was buried in Bedford Cemetery.
He was survived by his wife; a son Russell. S. Cromer of Fort Worth;
sisters, Mrs. R. H. Bates of Fort Worth; Mrs. Jennie Fitch of Oklahoma City;
and Mrs. Nora Blessing of Littlefield, Texas; a brother, E. S. Cromer of
Euless; and two grandchildren. |
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Russell S. Cromer (Apr. 24, 1904-July 1, 1963) is buried
near his parents at Bedford. |
James B. Fitch |
Aug 27, 1868-July 18, 1953 |
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Mary Jane Newman |
1871-1951 |
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Barney K. Fitch |
Sept. 23, 1875-Feb. 26, 1944 |
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Thomas Fitch |
Dec. 6, 1837-Apr 19 1922 |
(Father) |
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Catherine Fitch |
Sept. 10, 1840-July 22, 1923 |
(Mother) |
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Samuel T. Fitch |
Jan. 15, 1878-July 15, 1955 |
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next group all in curb: |
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Lillian Corbett |
1882-1977 |
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W. G. Corbett |
Apr 9 1876-Apr 18, 1909 |
Woodman of the World |
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[1880 census data indicates this man's name was Willie Corbett]
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C. T. Corbett |
Aug 24, 1844-July 17, 1924 |
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Emma F. Corbett |
Mar 1, 1850-Mar 12, 1926 |
wife |
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Charles T. Corbett and several members of his family lie
buried in Bedford Cemetery. He was born Aug. 24, 1844. Census records indicate
he was born in Pennsylvania.
Charles T. Corbett was married in Arkansas County, Arkansas on May 2,
1875 to Mrs. Emma Parker. They were married by Samuel J. Farer, a minister
of the gospel. She was born in Virginia.
Charles T. Corbett and his family are listed in the 1880 census of Arkansas
Co., Arkansas as residents of LaGrew Township. The family included Mr. Corbett,
aged 31 and a native of Pennsylvania; his wife Emma, aged 32 and a native
of Virginia; Charley Corbett, aged 13 and born in Tennessee; Willie Corbett,
aged 4 and born in Arkansas; James Corbett, aged 3 and born in Arkansas,
and Edward Corbett, aged 5 months and born in Arkansas. It is not yet known
who this Charley Corbett is....perhaps a son from a first marriage of C.
T. Corbett, a nephew, or some other relative. Since his given name is Charley,
it seems unlikely that he is a younger brother of C. T. Corbett.
Census data indicate that the Corbetts moved from Arkansas between and
July 1887. Charles Corbett and his family appear in the Bedford area in the
1900 federal census. At the time, his children included Willie G. Corbett
(born April 1876), Edward Corbett (born December 1879), Frank Corbett (born
January 1883), Georgie (a son born in May 1885), and a daughter, Mildred
(born in July, 1887). All the children were born in Arkansas except Mildred,
who was born in Texas.
Charles Corbett and family appear in the 1910 census, living along the
Fort Worth and Dallas Road west of Bedford. This was probably in the area
where modern-day Bedford Road crosses Sulphur Branch. His next-door neighbors
were John W. Miller and Mary E. Bobo. In 1910, the Corbetts told the census
taker they had been married 34 years and that Mrs. Corbett had given birth
to ten children, only five of whom were still living. Interestingly, Corbett
said in this year that he and both his parents were born in Ireland, and
that the family had emigrated to America in 1845 and had become naturalized.
Mrs. Corbett is shown as a native of Virginia as were both her parents. The
only other person living with Charles and Emma in 1910 was a granddaughter,
Ora L. Corbett, born about 1904 in Texas to an Arkansan father and a Kentuckian
mother.
Edward A. Corbett (1879-1972), Charles T. Corbett's son, was a well-known
personality in northeast Tarrant County. He was born on Dec. 24, 1879 and
died March 8, 1972. His last address was Ft Worth, Texas 76109. Ed Corbett
had a son named Charles Corbett. He may be the same Charles Corbett who was
born in 1908 and died in Tarrant County on November 18, 1991. |
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Ben Simmons |
1909-1929 |
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Family members report that the death date on this stone
is in error. Ben Simmons was still a boy when he died during a buggy accident.
There is no record of his death in the Texas vital statistics files. |
W. B. Simmons |
1854-1925 |
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Laura A. Simmons |
1865-1959 |
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See separate history of W. B. Simmons family. Ben, Henry,
and Joe B. Simmons were all children of Wesley B. and Laura A. (Miller) Simmons.
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Henry E. Simmons |
1898-1946 |
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Moore Funeral Home of Arlington conducted Henry Simmons'
funeral on June 9, 1946 at 2 p.m. at the Bedford Church. He was an electrician,
and his social security no. Was 463-22-4844. He was born in Bedford November
24, 1897 and died June 7, 1946 in All Saints Hospital in Fort Worth. |
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Joe Bailey Simmons |
Apr 29, 1905-Mar 16, 1982 |
PFC US Army WWII |
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Joe Bailey "Boost" Simmons was never married. |
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W. L. Schooler |
June 14, 1823-Apr 26, 1895 |
Mason |
Susan E. |
Jan. 30, 1833-Oct. 31, 1887 |
wife of W. L. Schooler |
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George Thomas Johnson |
Oct 19, 1839-Feb 22, 1904 |
(Grandpa) |
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This is the husband of Mrs. Louise Johnson, who died in
1918 and was buried at Arwine Cemetery in Hurst. |
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Mary Anna Johnson Rogers |
1877-1959 |
(Mother) |
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Myrtal Bates |
Dec. 18, 1890 |
infant of R. H. Bates and L. A. Bates |
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T. H. Hurst |
1881-1890 |
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Margaret C. "Maggie" Fitch |
Jan. 19, 1882-Jan. 1, 1968 |
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Frank Fitch |
Aug 17, 1922-Feb. 29, 1924 |
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"Just Fran" Franchel Gurganus |
Sept. 9, 1914-June 13, 1940 |
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Thomas H. Fitch |
1885- |
no death date on stone |
Effie L. Fitch |
1884-1945 |
wife |
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William C. Tatom |
Apr. 22, 1892-Apr.7, 1984 |
md. Apr. 19 1920 |
Sophie Rodgers |
Sept. 16, 1895-Apr. 3, 1989 |
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Doris Irene Tatom |
bd March 11, 1926 |
dau. of William C. & Sophie |
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P. Hardy Arthur |
1867-1955 |
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Capp H. Arthur |
1901-1947 |
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Tisha T. Arthur |
1873-1911 |
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No record of Tisha Arthur's death appears in the Texas vital
statistics files. |
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Little Loid Arthur |
bd April 1, 1894 |
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Eula [no surname] |
1889 |
fieldstone |
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three on same stone |
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Marcus D. Arthur |
Mar. 10, 1834-Feb. 1, 1893 |
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Fannie J. Arthur |
Oct. 30, 1843-Feb. 9, 1893 |
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Prince E. Arthur |
Feb. 24, 1869-Jan. 29, 1890 |
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Marcus D. L. Arthur was born on March 10, 1834, in Mason
County, Kentucky. He was the son of James Arthur [born about 1797 in
Pennsylvania] and his wife, Mary (Beall) Arthur [born about 1797 in Kentucky].
Born "Marquis De Lafayette Arthur," he grew up in a well-to-do slaveowning
family. He was still living at home in Kentucky with his parents in 1850.
He is found in various records made during his lifetime as "M.D.," "Marcus
D.," "Marcus," or "Mark." His wife, Fannie Jane (Arnold) Arthur, was born
October 30, 1843 in Mississippi and died in Bedford February 9, 1893. They
were married on September 6, 1858. She was the daughter of Levi Arnold, a
Methodist minister.
By 1860 Marcus Arthur was working as a farm hand on a ranch belonging
to his father-in-law, Levi Arnold, in Lavaca County, Texas. Arthur served
as a private in the Confederate Army in Frederick J. Malone's Company of
State Volunteers, and later also served in Company E of the 21st Texas
Cavalry.
In 1870, Marcus Arthur, his wife, and their five children were living
at "Penninsula" in Matagorda County, Texas. M. D. Arthur and his family first
appear in the Tarrant County tax rolls in 1876, when they took up residence
in Precinct 3. Family sources suggest that the Arthurs had earlier lived
in Bedford before moving to Matagorda County, and that they came back to
Bedford after the disastrous hurricane which devastated the Texas coast at
Indianola on September 15-17, 1876.
In Bedford in the 1890's the Arthurs lived along the south side of
present-day Cheek-Sparger Road, just east of its intersection with Jackson
Drive. In the 1880 Tarrant County census, they and the Moody family were
next-farm neighbors. In 1883, Arthur purchased a tract of land from Margaret
Moody, the mother of one of the other three trustees. Marcus D. Arthur died
in Bedford on February 1, 1893, only eight days before his wife. Both are
buried in Bedford Cemetery. Mary Daggett Lake, "Tarrant County's First Hundred
Families," in Magazine Section of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Sunday
Record, Sunday, March 27, 1927, page 3. Microfilm at Fort Worth Public
Library. |
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James M. Wheeler |
Aug. 26, 1879-Feb. 10, 1956 |
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Mamie |
July 14, 1891-Jan.17, 1982 |
wife |
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Mrs. I. T. Keller |
Mar. 16, 1862-Oct. 2, 1930 |
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I. T. Keller |
May 27, 1847-Nov. 15, 1924 |
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I. T. Keller's funeral was conducted by Foust Funeral Home
of Grapevine. Their records show he died at his home near Grapevine, of heart
failure complicated by influenza. His funeral was held at Bedford on November
16 at 2:30 p.m. He was a retired farmer. M. H. Moore conducted his funeral
service. Dr. E. C. Bechtol was his family physician. He was born in Tennessee.
His parents' names and their birthplaces are shown as "unknown" in the funeral
home records. |
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M. A. Keller |
died [Aug. 16, 1890?] |
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Stone is covered with thick lichens. An unreferenced note
about this homemade sandstone includes a birth date of July 14, 1870. There
is no footstone to indicate whether this is an adult or child burial. |
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Howard Johnson |
Dec 23, 1908-Sept 23, 1915 |
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. |
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Jane Stephenson Milne |
Oct. 29, 1883-Sept. 17, 1960 |
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Jesse Peter Milne |
Nov. 27, 1892-Sept. 9, 1930 |
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Alexander Milne |
Oct. 22, 1841-Mar. 17, 1923 |
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Elizabeth |
Sept. 30, 1862-March 1, 1957 |
wife |
[Ollie Mae Milne] |
Cushman found a funeral home marker here from Crosier-Pearson
Funeral Home for Ollie Mae Milne, 1896-1973. |
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Isaac M. Kimzey |
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Co. D., 13th Illinois Cavalry, Yankee army |
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Maude Kimzey Jones |
1873-1965 |
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Isaac M. Kimzey is buried at Bedford, one of only a few
Union veterans of the Civil War who later came to live in northeast Tarrant
County. His grave is marked with a marble headstone supplied by the U.S.
government.
Kimzey was born at Pinckneyville, Perry County, Illinois on October 5,
1846. According to the records of Foust Funeral Home in Grapevine, he was
the son of Jim (?) Kimzey and a Miss Brown. Their birthplaces were unknown.
Kimzey enlisted in the Union Army for Civil War service on February 25,
1864 at DuQuoin, Perry County, Illinois, for a term of three years. He was
promised an enlistment bounty of $300, to be paid in installments. He was
an eighteen-year-old farmer, living at the time in the 13th District of Perry
County.. He became a private in Co. D, 13th Illinois Cavalry. His enlistment
document says he was 5' 6" tall, and had blue eyes, brown hair, and a fair
complexion. Other papers in his file say he was 6' tall. During the entire
time of his service his regiment served in Arkansas. The 13th Illinois fought
in the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry on the Sabine River on April 30, 1864. During
the whole of the War, the regiment lost 21 enlisted men killed and wounded
as a result of enemy action, and 364 men and officers from disease. Kimzey
was mustered out of the army at Pine Bluff, Arkansas on August 31, 1865.
He kept his revolver, sabre, and accoutrements when he returned home.
When the Federal census was taken in 1890, Isaac M. Kimzey was a Union
veteran of the Civil War living at Baird in Callahan County, Texas.
Kimzey died of malaria and chronic bronchitis at his home near Grapevine
on October 29, 1926. His wife survived him. His funeral was held at Bedford
at 3 p.m. M. H. Moore officiated at the service.
I. M. Kimzey's widow, Maude Mae Jones, was born November 25,1873 in
Belvedere, New Jersey. She was the daughter of John A. Stevenson, a native
of New York. She died at the Hurstview Home in Hurst, Texas on January 31,
1965 at 4:37 p.m. According to Foust Funeral Home's records, she had been
a resident of Texas since 1900. Her last address was Rt. 2, Box 522, Grapevine.
Her son, I. M. Kimzey, made her funeral arrangements. Her funeral was held
at Colleyville Church of Christ on February 2 at 10 a.m. |
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William Adair Williams |
Apr 11, 1860-June 17, 1939 |
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Claudia Van Epps |
Sept 19, 1868-May 15, 1951 |
wife |
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Moore Funeral Home of Arlington's records show that W. A.
Williams of Rt. 4, Arlington, died at home on June 17, 1939. He was born
in Georgia and had worked as a contractor. His father was W. A. Williams,
Sr., and his mother was a Miss McCandless, both natives of Georgia. Williams's
service was held at the Bedford Church at 3 p.m. on June 18, 1939.
Moore also conducted the funeral of Claudia Williams on May 16, 1951 at
Moore Funeral Home in Arlington at 4 p.m. She was born in Georgia, and was
the daughter of Amos C. Van Epps, a native of New York. She died at Brooks
General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. She was a housewife and a resident
of Bedford. |
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Marion Ray Sexton, Sr. |
Aug. 18, 1894-Jan. 10, 1942 |
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June Rose Sexton |
June 14, 1930-Jan. 27, 1932 |
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Albert Guill |
Oct. 18, 1891 Dec 15, 1891 |
infant of A. R. and S. L. |
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A. B. Deacon |
died Jan. 1, _____ |
Sandstone |
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Cushman recorded death date of 1885. The area of the death
year has been obliterated by a mower since Cushman made her list. |
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S. E. Morriss |
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Sandstone . No other data visible on stone. |
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J. S. Bobo |
1863-1908 |
(Husband) |
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Texas vital statistics records show this death in Tarrant
County on January 31, 1908. |
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M. Jobe |
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Small sandstone . |
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Stone is heavily covered with lichens and no other inscription
is readable. |
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Lewis Madison Jobe |
1850-1947 |
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Sarah Francis Jobe |
1861-1927 |
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Texas vital statistics records show this Tarrant County
death on July 19, 1927. |
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Lee Dewey Cannon |
Nov. 6, 1898-Aug. 6, 1955 |
TX S1 USNR WWI and WWII |
Amber Alice Cannon |
June 11, 1896-May 12, 1970 |
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these three in an old rock and concrete curb |
Joe E. Clowers |
July 18, 1931-June 14, 1949 |
son and brother |
Edward Clowers |
Apr 15, 1911-July 24, 1993 |
(Shannon's Funeral Home) |
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Alice Clowers |
1912-1956 |
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Eugene H. Barr |
May 21, 1892-Jan. 30, 1948 |
TX Pvt. Co. F 7th AMM TN WWI |
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Sarah, A. Barr |
June 6, 1866-July 26, 1923 |
wife of I. L. Barr |
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I. L. Barr |
Oct. 4, 1857-Jan. 18, 1929 |
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Moore Funeral Home of Arlington conducted the funeral of
Eugene H. Barr at 3 p.m. on February 1, 1948 at the Bedford Church. He was
a construction worker. The records seem to suggest that he may have had a
wife who survived him. He was born in Tennessee. He died in St. Joseph's
Hospital in Fort Worth from heart trouble. His father was I. L. Barr, a native
of Tennessee. |
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Cal V. Greer |
Aug. 28, 1892-Mar. 3, 1953 |
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Minnie O. Greer |
Nov. 22, 1895-July 14, 1983 |
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adj |
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Howard L. Greer |
Dec. 13, 1933-Feb. 12, 1936 |
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adj. |
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Anthony G. Greer |
Feb. 12, 1957-Feb. 12, 1957 |
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R. A. Bobo |
1869-1930 |
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Texas vital statistics files record Robert Alvis Bobo, died
in Tarrant County on Oct. 23, 1930. |
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adj. |
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Robert A. Bobo, Jr. |
Dec. 3, 1903-Dec. 14, 1903 |
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Joshua P. Scott |
1873-1937 |
Papa |
Missouri |
1877-1966 |
wife - Mama |
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same lot, another stone for him: |
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Joshua P. |
Jan 9 1873-Apr 13 1937 |
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D. B. |
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footstone |
M. J. R. |
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Footstone |
(unknown) |
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Large base with no stone present for it |
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Nancy J. Redmon |
appears to be born 1836 |
very eroded |
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all this in one curb |
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Dollie Bobo |
Aug. 20, 1878-Dec. 13 or 18, 1881 |
dau. of J. H. & Annie Bobo - Very eroded stone |
(unknown) |
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footstone adj. marble eroded |
(unknown) |
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footstone adj. marble eroded |
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double stone and kids on same stone: |
Joel H. Bobo |
1845-1921 |
Woodman of the World and Mason |
Annie T. Bobo |
1858-1886 |
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No record of Joel H. Bobo's death is found in the Texas
vital statistics files. |
Ernest |
1883-1883 |
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Carrie |
1884-1886 |
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Mary Ann |
1886-1886 |
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Dollie |
1878-1881 |
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Iva Scott |
May 23, 1871-Feb. 16, 1877 |
dau. of A. S. and S. C. |
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Augustus F. Scott, M.D. |
1841-1907 |
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Sarah C. Scott |
1842-1936 |
wife |
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Texas vital statistics files record that Sarah C. Scott
died in Tarrant County on June 4, 1936. |
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adj to Iva's stone: |
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Kate Scott |
Sept. 4, 1880-Nov. 2, 1969 |
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Sam Hayden Ellis |
Feb. 20, 1922-Sept 14 1932 |
footstone says "Sammie" |
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Cushman reports a stone with J.M. in this area. No dates
on stone.
four graves taken out of the Spring Garden Cemetery |
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Mary H. Valentine, Sr. |
Jan 17 1873-Feb. 19, 1873 |
dau. of R. T. and M. A. |
Infant Valentine |
b. and d. June 30, 1871 |
dau. of R. T. and M. A. |
Peter K. Matthews |
Mar. 8, 1824-Feb. 12, 1869 |
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Jesse O. Boyles |
Feb. 8, 1865- Sept. 30, 1867 |
sandstone |
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John W. Miller |
1829-1912 |
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Virginia B. Miller |
1844-1924 |
wife |
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Married July 3, 1861, Came to Bedford from Hawkins County,
Tennessee |
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John W. Miller and his family settled along Sulphur Branch
in Bedford in the late 1800's, and established a family which still lives
and works in northeast Tarrant County. Like many of Bedford's earliest settlers,
they were from the mountains of East Tennessee.
John W. Miller was born in Hawkins County, Tennessee on September 21,
1829. His parents, Sanders and Susan Miller, moved from place to place working
small mountain farms before they finally settled down to operate a mill on
the Holston River. John grew up working as a farm laborer and he learned
the miller's trade early.
On July 3, 1861, John married Virginia B. Stone of the Springdale community
in nearby Claiborne County, Tennessee. During the Civil War years and for
some time afterwards, they operated a mill on the Holston River in present-day
Hamblen County, Tennessee. Both Virginia's parents, Reuben F. and Fetney
(Hurst) Stone, were members of pioneer Claiborne County families. John was
thirty-one and Virginia was sixteen when they were married. Virginia had
given birth to three children by her twenty-first birthday.
By the late 1860's many of the Millers' friends and neighbors were leaving
the mountains and moving west. A surprising number finally settled on Grapevine
Prairie along the Tarrant-Dallas County line, in the areas of Grapevine and
Coppell, Texas. In late 1869 or early 1870 the Miller's packed their belongings
into a covered wagon and started to Texas.
Some interesting stories have survived about the trip. Just after they
crossed the Mississippi River, they found an abandoned chair. They picked
it up, and used it in their home for many years. The Miller children talked
about the difficulties of fording streams, crossing the blackland prairie
with its deep cracks, and making their way through the tangled pine forests
and over the hills. One night while they were camped John Miller found a
dead man hanging in a tree. He wanted to call the local authorities, but
the rest of the members of the party convinced him they shouldn't get
involved.
By the time the census taker arrived in 1870, the Millers had settled
near Grapevine. One of the daughters remembered that wild turkeys and prairie
chickens were plentiful. Some of their neighbors included old friends from
Springdale, Tennessee, including the Corbins and Virginia's sister and her
husband, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Saunders.
John and Virginia Miller had eleven children, only six of whom married
and of whom only four had children of their own. They were Margaret Neil
Miller (1862-1942); Thomas F. Miller (1863-1947); Laura Ann Miller (1865-1959,
who married Wesley Bryant Simmons); Mary Alice "Molly" Miller (1867-1947,
who married Dennis J. Connors); William Leander Miller (1871-1945, who married
Emma Mahafey but had no children); twins Ellen B. Miller (b. 1875 and died
young) and Sallie Jane Miller (1875-1957, who married William Jackson Corbin
but had no children); Annie Elias "Lude" Miller (1878-1952, who married W.
Oscar Martin), and twins Carrie Bessie Miller (1882-1945, who married Rufus
Perry Acton) and the other twin who apparently died at birth without being
named. Virginia Miller also had another child, possibly between the births
of Will in 1871 and the twins in 1875.
The Millers were still living on Grapevine Prairie in 1880. For a while
between 1880 and 1883 they may have lived and farmed near Gainesville in
Cooke County on the Belcher Ranch. One of Virginia Miller's great-nieces,
Alice (Corbin) Brown, distinctly remembers Mrs. Miller saying they lived
for a short time in Oklahoma. A letter in John Miller's handwriting has survived,
dated November 29, 1883, in which he seems to be talking about his family's
move back to Grapevine which was taking place at that time.
We do not know exactly when John and Virginia Miller moved their family
to Bedford. In 1891 they bought a small lot in Bedford from M. F. Minter,
but sold it in 1894. Later in 1894 their son, Thomas F. Miller, bought the
old Miller homeplace along Sulphur Branch where Bedford Road crosses it today.
It contained 170 acres, for which he paid $10 per acre. This farm is now
covered by a part of the Airport Freeway and by several dozen upscale
homes.
The Millers were a very close family. They held yearly family reunions,
usually when Tom Miller was able to be there. The grandchildren were given
fried chicken legs and necks to eat, and the adults got to eat the best parts.
The Millers had a family band for decades. Will played the guitar and Bessie
played the piano. During the Bedford Old Settlers' Reunions, there were sometimes
more people at the Millers' house that at the real reunion.
John Miller died at his Bedford home, probably in the fall of 1912. His
grandchildren remembered seeing with his long flowing white beard, sitting
on his porch or lying in his high-backed bed with a stocking cap on his head.
Bessie (Cavender) Simmons remembered seeing his funeral procession winding
up the road toward Bedford Cemetery.
Virginia Miller survived her husband about twelve years and died about
1924. She always kept a place set for him at the head of the table.
For a more complete account of the Miller family, see "An Oral and
Documentary History of the Lives of John W. Miller (1829-c1912) and Virginia
B. (Stone) Miller (1844-c1924)," by Michael E. Patterson (1998).
Margaret Neil Miller lies buried in an unmarked
grave in Bedford Cemetery. She was born in Tennessee on June 12, 1862, and
was the oldest child of John W. Miller and his wife, Virginia B. (Stone)
Miller. She was named after Virginia's sister, Margaret Neil Stone, who married
John Sherman Saunders. Known as "Aunt Mag Miller," she was never married.
Her nieces and nephews remember her as a tall, straight, lady who was very
prim and particular about her appearance. At the Bedford Reunion in the Fall
of 1941, she received a prize for being the oldest unmarried Bedford settler
present. Her nephew, Tom Acton, remembers that she slipped on some slick
pavement at the Isis Theatre on the North Side of Fort Worth and broke a
bone. She wasn't able to recover, and spent her last days bedfast in a North
Side Convalescent home. She died in the convalescent home or in a Fort Worth
hospital on Thursday, July 30, 1942. Her funeral service was held at Oak
Grove Methodist Church at Bedford with Rev. Armstrong officiating. Two
slightly-differing obituaries for Aunt Mag appeared on the same page of the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Friday evening, July 31, on p. 27. One announces
her funeral on Friday, July 31 at 4 p.m. The other says it was to take place
on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. A true Miller to the last, no stone marks
her grave in Bedford Cemetery.
Thomas F. Miller, the second child of John W. and Virginia B. (Stone)
Miller, was born October 25, 1863, in Tennessee. He may have been named after
his mother's brother, Thomas Stone, or after his father's relative and close
friend, Thomas Miller. We do not know what the "F." stood for. Perhaps he
was given the middle name of his grandfather, Reuben Floyd Stone. Like his
sister, Mag, Uncle Tom Miller was never married. During his younger years
he worked in Mexico City for an oil company for which he received $1.50 per
day. Tom Acton remembers that he saved his money and used some of it to buy
property in Bedford. After he came back to Bedford he was a farmer. He spent
several years of his later life living at the Miller place in Bedford. He
smoked Prince Albert tobacco in a can, and there were Prince Albert cans
all over the homeplace. Tom Miller died May 22, 1946, at the Miller house
in Bedford, and was buried in Bedford Cemetery on May 24. J. E. Foust of
Grapevine was in charge of his funeral arrange-ments. His grave is
unmarked.
William Leander Miller, the son of John W. and Virginia B. (Stone)
Miller, was born in Texas on July 18, 1871. He may have been named for two
of John W. Miller's brothers...William and Leander Miller...or he may have
been named for Virginia's youngest brother, William Stone. Uncle Will married
Emma Mahafey about 1904 in Tarrant County. They had no children. In 1923,
Will and Emma Miller were living at Amarillo in Potter County, Texas. After
they left Amarillo, they moved to Dallas where Will worked for the Interurban
Company. He was also a skilled cabinetmaker and musician. He died at the
old Miller homeplace in Bedford on May 3, 1945, less than a week after his
youngest sister, Bessie Acton. His nephews, Henry and Boost Simmons, sat
up with him during his last night, and he died the next day. His funeral
was held on May 5, at the Bedford Church of Christ. Rev. Efird of Hurst
officiated. Although the records at Foust Funeral Home in Grapevine are ambiguous
and seem to suggest he may have been buried at Parker Memorial Cemetery south
of Grapevine, family members recall attending his funeral at Bedford and
there seems to be no reason to suspect he was buried anywhere else. His grave
is unmarked. |
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Emma Gertrude Acton |
Aug. 20, 1918-Jan. 4, 1939 |
wife of Paul Caissey |
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adj. |
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William Philip Acton |
Sept. 8, 1922-June 8, 1923 |
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adj. |
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Howard Perry Acton |
Sept. 30, 1903-March 1921 |
no day of month given for death |
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adj. |
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Grandmother Acton |
Descendants' best guess is that this is Rufus Perry Acton's
mother, Rhoda E. (Allen) Henley Acton Rutledge. The daughter of Alexander
Allen, who was married first to a Mr. Henley, then to James R. Acton on Aug.
22, 1877, then to Joseph E. Rutledge |
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Thomas G. Henley |
no dates |
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J. Henley and family were living at Bedford at the time
the 1870 census was taken. He was a 22-year-old native of Missouri (b.c1848)
who owned $120 in real estate and $250 in personal property. His wife, R.
E., was 23 years old and a native of Texas. She was Rhoda E. Allen, the daughter
of Bedford pioneer Alexander Allen. They were married about 1866. They had
at least one child, a boy named B. Henley, born about 1867 in Texas. Also
living with them in 1870 in Bedford was a 14-year-old boy named J. Henley,
also born in Missouri. He could possibly be a brother of the older J. Henley.
In 1870, this Henley family's next farm neighbors were the families of Milton
Moore and J. F. Trimble. Mrs. Milton Moore was a Henley from Cole County,
Missouri before her marriage to Mr. Moore. |
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Rufus Perry Acton |
Oct. 23, 1878-May 2, 1966 |
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Son of James R. Acton and his wife, Rhoda E. (Allen) Henley
Acton. After her marriage to Acton, Rhoda was married to Joseph E. Rutledge.
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Carrie Bessie Acton |
May 10, 1882-Apr. 27, 1945 |
wife |
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James R. Acton was the father of well-known Bedford oldtimer,
Perry Acton. J. R. Acton married Mrs. Rhoda E. (Allen) Henley, the the daughter
of Alexander Allen, one of Bedford's first settlers. Rhoda was born in East
Texas in November 1845, probably in Upshur County where her parents were
living in 1850. Acton and Rhoda were married in Tarrant County on August
22, 1877.
James and Rhoda Acton have not been located in the 1880 census. They
had at least two children: Ben Acton and Rufus Perry Acton. One of Perry
Acton's granddaughters says she thinks she may have heard that the Actons
once lived in the Indian Territory. There is an R. B. Acton in the census,
who was born in 1880 in Indian Territory to an Illinoisan father and a Texan
mother. This R. B. Acton's wife and daughter have headstones in Bedford Cemetery.
It seems reasonable to suggest that this is Ben Acton, and that his parents
were in the Indian Territory when the 1880 census was taken.
In 1883, Rhoda E. Acton was remarried to Joseph E. Rutledge, a widower
who had recently come to the area from Wayne County, Tennessee.
Descendants do not now know what happened to James's and Rhoda's marriage,
or what ultimately happened to James. Perry Acton, James's son, told his
own son (Tom) that he and his brother, Ben Acton, had once met with their
father. At that time he offered them an amount of money, but neither of them
would take it.
When the Union veterans' census was taken in 1890, Joseph E. Rutledge
is shown as a resident of Bransford.
During the 1970's, James R. Acton's grandson, Tom Miller Acton of Bedford,
told Mike Patterson an interesting story about his grandfather. It seems
that James was a nervous traveler and, having accidentally gotten onto a
train which wasn't going where he thought it was, he jumped off. The fall
led to his death.
Inside the Acton curb in Bedford Cemetery is a headstone which simply
says, "Grandmother Acton." This stone probably marks the grave of Rhoda E.
(Allen) Henly Acton Rutledge. There are no readable headstones in any northeast
Tarrant County cemetery for Joseph or Rhoda Rutledge. |
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Olin W. Mumford |
July 23, 1895-Feb. 10, 1961 |
Pvt. Texas 380 Motor Truck Co. MTC WW I |
Infant Mumford |
Oct. 13, 1910-Oct. 20, 1910 |
son of T. J. and Lula |
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Bonnie May Clark |
May 22, 1893-Aug. 26, 1910 |
dau. of R. C. and Sarah E. |
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All three of these Klines are on the same stone |
Constant Kline |
1852-1937 |
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Texas vital statistics records show a Bexar County death
record for a Constant Kline
on January 18, 1937. |
Sarah J. Kline |
1858-1922 |
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Texas vital statistics records show this Tarrant County
death on February 8, 1922. |
Denia Kline |
1882-1901 |
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Helen |
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Footstone found by Cushman in the Kline plot. |
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William Reece Fitch |
May 23, 1873-Feb. 1, 1959 |
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Nora Bobo Fitch |
Mar 10, 1881-Nov. 15, 1959 |
wife |
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same lot |
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Walter R. "Postmaster" Fitch |
Dec. 13, 1912-Dec. 10, 1972 |
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M. Evelyn Wilkerson |
Jan. 6, 1913- |
wife - no death date on stone |
Olen C. Allen |
Oct. 18, 1907-July 20, 1991 |
Tech 5, US Army WWII |
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Olen C. Allen, was known to his friends and family as Chester
Allen. Both his parents, William Rufus Allen and Annie Belle (Cannon) Allen,
are buried near him in unmarked graves. When Cushman did her inventory in
1980, the temporary funeral home markers were still in place.
Annie Belle (Cannon) Allen was born in Bedford on August 16, 1880. She
died at her home at Bedford at 5:40 p.m. on October 29, 1957. She died of
heart congestion of 12 months duration. She was the daughter of Green Cannon
and Fronie Haley. Her funeral was held at Bedford Church of Christ on October
31 at 2 p.m.
Foust Funeral Home handled the burials of both William Rufus Allen and
his wife.
According to their records, William Rufus Allen was born January 16, 1872.
He was born in Bedford. He died at 4:55 p.m. on October 24, 1958 at his home
in Bedford. He was the son of Thomas B. Allen. His funeral was held at Bedford
Church of Christ on October 26 at 2 p.m.; Tommy Abbot of Smithfield officiated.
He died of a cerebral thrombosis with arteriolar sclerosis as a contributary
cause. His family physician was Dr. H. E. Wyss. |
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Bell Holder |
Mar 9, 1897-June 17, 1932 |
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Mary B. Holder |
1932 |
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Texas vital statistics records show this Tarrant County
death of Mary Belle Holder
on May 10, 1932. |
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Hattie Barr |
Aug. 19, 1875-Oct. 21, 1950 |
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adj. |
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John Barr |
Nov. 9, 1853-June 29, 1941 |
Husband |
Matilda Jane Barr |
May 12, 1858-Jan. 27, 1933 |
wife |
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John B. Barr married Matilda Jane Moore in Tarrant County
on Sept. 26, 1878. |
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Anderson lot, has only a granite place with "Anderson"
cast into the curb |
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Hiram Arnold |
1877-1951 |
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Ellen Arnold |
1884-1968 |
wife |
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Moore Funeral Home records from Arlington show what Hiram
Arnold was born August 12, 1877. His address was Rt. 1, Box 145, Fort Worth.
He was a farmer. He died October 11, 1951. His funeral was held at the Baptist
Church in Fort Worth on October 11. His father was a native of Texas. |
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Leslie A. Wright |
July 18, 1873-May 20, 1946 |
Co. K, 2 Texas Infantry, Spanish American War - Mason |
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adj. |
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Alma Gordon Wright |
Feb. 8, 1875-June 20, 1950 |
Mother |
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Arthur J. Griffin |
1875-1954 |
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Emma L. Griffin |
1880-1960 |
wife |
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adj. |
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Mary F. Givens |
1856-1932 |
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Texas vital statistics records show this Tarrant County
death as Mary Frances Givens
on January 16, 1932. |
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