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Handley Cemetery

Copied May 1996 by Weldon Hudson

 

Although Tex Carter had already provided us an inventory for Handley Cemetery, it was decided to use both as each has something to offer. On a number of stones, the two gentlemen interpreted the worn engraving differently.

This inventory appeared in the May 1996 issue of Footprints, the quarterly publication of the Fort Worth Genealogical Society. It is reprinted here with permission.


 
The cemetery is located on the south side of the 6700 block of East Rosedale Street (Spur 303) about 1/2 mile east of Loop 820 in east Fort Worth. It is bordered on three sides by the TXU Electric Power Plant, is fenced on two sides and the grounds kept in fair condition. About 10 or 12 graves are marked with field stones or old markers which cannot be read. The earliest marked grave is that of Jane E. Thomas (1832-1878). The last burial was in 1967. Several early residents (including Mr. Handley who died in 1906) have been re-interred in nearby Rose Hill Cemetery.

This burial ground originally served the pioneer settlers of the Handley community (named for Civil War veteran James M. Handley), which was settled in 1876, soon after the Texas and Pacific Railroad built a line, to the area. A church, constructed on adjacent land in 1882, was in existence for 48 years.

Ed. Note: When several names are grouped together, all were found within a single plot.
 
HARRIS, Albert G.
May 21, 1855 - Nov. 13, 1888
 
FINCHER, Hulda M.
Wife of J. C. FINCHER
Dec. 1, 1831 - Apr. 25, 1896
 
DEAVER, Dora
wife of F. M. DEAVER
July 30, 1869 - Jan 29, 1892
 
PELLEY, Robert L.
Oct. 28, 1868 - May 10, 1892
 
PELLEY, Nannie
1876 - 1902
 
GRAVEY, Abanathey B.
son of W. M. & A. J. GRAVEY
Aug. 8, 1883 - Oct. 14, 1903
 
LADD, Henry Walker
son of R. S. & R. J. LADD
Sept. 6, 1893 - June 5, 1902
 
FOWLER, Infant dau.
of J. C. & F. FOWLER
age 4 months
 
CALIAS, Cynthia Marie
May 15, 1882 - Apr. 8, 1896
 
RASBURY, Lucy J.
Feb. 26, 1844 - Mar, 19, 1906
 
FLOYD, A. J. 1816 - 1898
 
FOSCUE, Mary A.
Jan. 7, 1848 - Feb. 9, 1919
 
FLOYD, James M.
Jan. 4, 1853 - Feb. 4, 1918
 
GILLIAM, James
Oct. 21, 1847 - Nov. 12, 1905
GILLIAM, Sarah E.
June 20, 1851 - July 29, 1915
 
GRAHAM, Dr. A. E. 1857 - 1903
GRAHAM, Ella Lee - 1864 - 1929
GRAHAM, Robert 1892 - 1902
CRAIG, Wm. Fietcber
May 28, 1911 - Aug. 3, 1911
HAILEY, Madeline Craig
Dec. 25, 1906 - Mar. 24, 1967
CRAIG, Proctor G. [Masonic Emblem]
June 29, 1880 - Feb. 27, 1963
CRAIG, Allie Graham
Oct. 9, 1885 - Aug. 7, 1945
 
GRAHAM, Louis L. [Masonic Emblem]
Aug. 27, 1893 - Feb. 13, 1953
 
GILLESPIE, James O. 1905 - 1923
 
EVERETT, Ernest T. 1870 - 1922
EVERETT, Rose R. 1874 - 1945
 
CRAIG, W. D.
July 6, 1817 - Jan. 15, 1903
 
MOORE, Lila
Nov. 1, 1830 - Apr. 30, 1899
SHAPPELL, M. M.
Feb. 4. 1816 - Aug. 25, 1899
SHAPPELL, Mary J.
Aug. 30, 1826 - Apr. 27, 1899
MOORE, M. F.
d. Mar. 25, 1894, age 66 years
 
SHAPPELL, A. A.
d. Dec. 25, 1891, age 41 yrs
 
REVES, Addie
Wife of C. P. REVES
Oct. 25, 1874 - Oct. 3, 1906
BREWER, Preston
Oct. 8, 1825 - Aug. 23, 1902
 
HARRISON, Mattie C.
Wife of W. I. HARRISON
Nov. 17, 1874 - May 12, 1899
 
REEVES, Rev. O.
Dec. 29, 1809 - Apr. 8, 1892
REEVES, Rebeca [sic] wife
Apr. 10, 1812 - Mar. 4, 1898
 
FLETCHER, P. C.
Dec. 30, 1848 - Feb. 11, 1896
 
REVES, C. F. 1831 - 1886
REVES, E. C. [wife] 1836 - 1908
 
SEALY, Minnie
Wife of J. L. SEALY
Feb. 15, 1873
 
CASSIDY, James
[Masonic Emblem]
July 18, 1849 - Oct. 26, 1885
 
MORRIS, Robert
Apr. 23, 1853 - Jan. 19, 1894
 
BUTLER, Henry
May 5, 1841 - Mar. 19, 1880
 
GRAY, James S. 1828 - 1902
GRAY, Mary E. 1846 - 1886
 
EDER, George
Feb. 18, 1810 - Oct. 1, 1896
EDER, Elizabeth
Oct. 17, 1832 - Aug. 19 - 1904
 
MCRAE, Ernest
son of D. & E. MCREA
May 1, 1880 - Nov. 12, 1882
 
PATTILLO, Inf. son of
J. W. & C. B. PATILLO
d. Jan. 31, 1894
 
DAVIS, Emma Z. 1859 - 1884
DAVIS, Annie E.
July 6, 1893 - Nov. 6. 1883
 
WHEELER, Floyd D.
son of J. H. and A. W. Wheeler
Apr. 28, 1881 - July 15 - 1882
 
LACY, Willie H.
son of J. & M. A. LACY
July 29, 1886 - Feb. 17, 1900
 
BENNING, I. G. 1822 - 1900
BENNING, Mary 1832 - 1913
BENNING, J. R. 1862 - 1899
BENNING, B. F. 1858 - 1889
 
CLARKE, W. E.
Sept, 28, 1867 - May 6, 1926
CLARKE, Julia E.
Nov, 11, 1868 - May 10, 1904
 
DANNER, Ada
wife of J. W. DANNER
Aug. 18, 1869 - July 29, 1894
 
DANNER, Jonnie Ruth
Dau J. W. & Naoni DANNER
Mar, 12, 1904 - Nov. 13, 1905
 
WARREN, Tearl A.
Aug. 9, 1966 - Sept. 26, 1899
Born in Cabot, Lincoln Co. Ark.
 
DARNELL, Mrs. Isabella Mother
d. Nov, 27, 1893, age 86
DARNELL, Sidney Brother
d. Aug. 6, 1910, age 62
 
BICKLEY, Etta
Wife of W. H. Bickley
Oct. 5, 1905 - Dec. 17, 1921
THOMAS, H. C.
Dec. 31, 1861 - Jan. 1, 1915
THOMAS, Ida S.
Dec. 5, 1874 - June 7, 1956
 
MONTAGUE, H. T.
Apr. 7, 1841 - Feb. 29, 1928
MONTAGUE, Frances M.
July 29, 1845 - Apr. 27, 1920
PORTER, Sadie J. Mother
Sept. 30, 1858 - May 15, 1923
PORTER, Wm Claud - Son
Aug. 28, 1887 - Oct. 29, 1939
 
McCLARY, Eula Jane
July 20, 1893 - Nov. 25, 1925
 
RAINEY, John Hamilton
Aug. 6, 1849 - Jan. 8, 1828
 
MEALS, Glena Lou
dau of M. S. and Fred Meals
Dec. 15, 1919 - Feb. 25, 1923
 
HAYNIE, Sanford M. - Mason
Oct. 18, 1834 - Nov. 5, 1918
HAYNIE, Georgia A.
Apr. 7, 1844 - Dec. 13, 1923
 
VADEN, Ural Mayo - Mother
June 10, 1898 - Mar. 10, 1924
 
PATTY, Robert C.
July 15, 1862 - June 12, 1949
 
PATTY, Laura S,
July 5, 1866 - June 5, 1938
PATTY, Ruth - daughter
Age 4 Yrs 6 Mos.
PATTY, Solomon - Son
Age 10 Yrs. 3 Mos.
 
WASHBURN, Rufus 1823 - 1909
WASHBURN, Emma J. 1840 - 1923
COVINGTON, P. F. 1839 - 1927
COVINGTON, Clara 1864 - 1934
FARMER, Ella - Wife of T. F. FARMER
Dec. 4, 1859 - Sept. 10, 1894
 
FALSOM, Mrs, Amanda
June 13, 1803 - Apr. 4, 1889
 
COWAN, Robert J.
Feb. 11, 1873 - Sept. 28, 1890
COWAN, Sallie
]an. 28, 1842 - Oct. 21, 1892
 
HARVEY, W. H.
Co, A. Ist Ohio Inf.
[no dates]
 
CANNON, Robert G.
Son of J. A. & W. C.
Mar. 10, 1889 - May 13, 1889
 
HALL, Richard
Oct. 14, 1843 - Jan. 29, 1885
 
McINTYRE, Marla
Aug, 6, 1851 - Apr. 23, 1891
 
SMITH, William D. 1835 - 1895
SMITH, Edward 1860 - 1882
 
SMITH, Mary B. 1909 - 1914
 
BRYAN, J. Jane 1826 - 1909
BABY 1902
 
ROBINSON, Frances M.
Wife of J. C.
Born in Fauquier Co., Va.
Jan. 20, 1846 - Dec. 23, 1887
 
THEILEMAN, F. H.
[W.O.W. Emblem]
Sept. 2, 1870 - Jan. 10, 1910
 
BULLARD, Roxey A. 1878 - 1900
BEATY, Violio dau of J. M. & A.
1899 - 1903
 
WILSON, David B.
Aug. 24, 1838 - Feb. 12, 1902
WILSON, Mary Catherine
Oct. 26, 1847 - July 25, 1932
SMITH, W. Tom [W.O.W. Emblem]
Aug. 15, 1869 - June 20, 1918
 
MESSER, Herman
son of W. & S. E.
Age 43 days
 
JACOBS, L. E.
Mar. 2, 1842 - Aug. 11, 1883
 
VANCE, Ella
wife of J. C.
d. Feb. 1881 Age 32 yrs
 
TIP'TON, Mary D.
Sept. 12, 1845 - Oct. 8, 1890
PATTERSON, S. E.
March 15, 1842 - Oct. 17, 1910
PATTERSON, S. H.
Mar. 5, 1834 - Sept. 16, 1890
 
KVETON, [sic] Jordon Joseph
June 11, 1918 - June 29, 1919
 
GUNNELLS, John D.
May 8, 1823 - Sept. 12, 1903
 
THOMAS, Jane
Wife of E. D.
Dec. 27, 1832 - Apr. 5, 1878
 
BOWMAN, Anna dau of
J. R. & Mattie Alford
Sept. 26, 1807 - Aug. 4, 1899
 
McBEE, Alex D. 1930
McBEE, Mattie - Wife of J. R. Alford
1879 - 1921
McBEE, Charlie 1854 - 1934
 
WORD, G. W. 1828 - 1897
SMITH, Richard Hugh
Jan. 30, 1918 - Feb. 18, 1918
 
NOAH, Solomon K.
Mar. 28, 1828 - Mar. 18, 1893
 
NOE, Fred son of C. E. & F. L.
Jan. 11, 1895 - Jan. 21, 1895
 
KELL, Hugh H.
July 6, 1845 - June 6, 1889
KELL, Mary 1851 - 1922
 
HOOVER, Jennie
wife of Ben O.
Oct. 3, 1872 - Aug. 20, 1893
 
HENRY, Mrs. B. A.
Mar. 30, 1883 - Dec. 25, 1911
 
BEATY, George TR.L.
1st Texas Cav. Sp. Am. War
[no datesl
 
HARBSON, E. E.
Aug. 25, 1890 - June 27, 1908
 
TARPLEY, Ida May
Wife of H. T.
Dec. 9, 1873 - Dec. 21, 1907
 
CHAMBERS, Fannie M.
Wife of T. F.
May 23, 1851 - June 4, 1902
 
STRICKLAND, Lomas Ella J.
wife of H. J.
1854 - Jan. 26, 1910
 
EARNEST, Marth [sic] L.
Wife of R. D.
Nov. 3, 1846 - Feb. 8, 1904
 
DONOHO, Paul
[no datesl
 
LINDSAY, J. H.
Sept. 22, 1848 - May 12, 1933
LINDSAY, Hardenia
Feb. 16, 1863 - Feb. 18, 1922
 
YOUNG, W. L.
Sept, 1, 1864 - Mar. 17, 1926
YOUNG, Herschel G.
Mar. 30, 1890 - Oct. 21, 1933
YOUNG, Sarah Clyde
Dec. 28, 1888 - May 6, 1981


Mrs. Homer L. Roper and Mrs. A. C. Lacroix, members of the Six Flags Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Worth, Texas, copied the inscriptions in this cemetery in 1957. Their findings were subsequently published in a compilation of cemetery records. In checking my listing with theirs, sixteen entries found at that time are not visible now - the headstones probably destroyed by vandals or other forms of destruction. Information contained on these stones appears below. - Weldon Hudson
  
THOMAS, Annie 1856 - 1915
THOMAS, E. D. 1828 - 1907
 
FERGUSON, Delia Gertrude
Dau. of N. N, and Jennie
July 17, 1882 - Sept. 22, 1882
 
PATTILLO, James H.
Son of J. W. and C. B.
Sept. 18, 1882 - Nov. 11, 1883
 
BEGGES, Tom
Sept. 15, 1883 - died 1886
 
HARRISON, Mary E.
Dau. of W. L. and M. G.
 
REEVES, Willie I.
Dau. of W. O. and M. B.
Age 5 Mos.
 
HAILEY, Betty Graham
died Nov. 29, 1934
 
FARMER, Mary Ella
Wife of T. F.
Dec.. 4, 1859 - Sept. 10, 1894
PHEMISTER, Infant son
1911 - 1911
 
LEWIS, Sarah Brown
Oct, 27, 1876 - Nov. 24, 1903
 
LEWIS, Oliver P.
June 18, 1869 - Feb, 8, 1889
 
STRICKLAND, Grace Lee
Daughter
Mar. 18, 1889 - Dec. 25, 1909
 
BLACK, Elsie Estelle
Dau of Mr. and Mrs. T. L.
July 21, 1906 - Sept. 24, 1906
 
RASUBRY, [sic] Walter
Son of N. A. & C. J.
June I - Oct. 3, 1904
 
GRAVEY, Birdie
Dau. of W. M. & A. J.
Sept. 13, 1887 - Sept. 22, 1887


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