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This cemetery is located on the west side of the road just north of the
intersection of Meadowbrook Drive and Ederville Road. This is about a quarter
mile south of Interstate 30 in east Fort Worth.
The Historical Marker reads:
HARRISON CEMETERY
When first used this one acre cemetery belonged to Tarrant County Pioneer
D. C. Harrison. The earliest known grave is that of Mary E. Harrison (1864
- 1871). Several early settlers used this site, including R. A. Randol (1850
- 1922), the operator of the Randol Mill, who bought this tract in 1876 and
deeded it over as a burial ground. Graves here number about sixty and include
those of the Edward deason family, Randol's first wife Rhonda Harrison (1859
- 1882), his brother John C. Randol (1833 - 1894) who died in a mill accident
and Nancy Cannon Harrison (1833 - 1883) mother of Ronda Harrison Randol.
Nancy R. Cannon Harrison
Born July 18, 1833
Married Dec. 14, 1854
Died March 23, 1883 |
Mary E. Harrison
Aug. 4, 1864 - June 3, 1871 |
J. C. Randol
Born April 19, 1854
Died Nov. 1, 1894 |
Harrison
June 7, 1878
Nov. 25, 1878 |
Rhoda B. Harrison Randol
Born July 1, 1859
Married Jan. 22, 1874
Died Nov. 5, 1882 |
Leudila A. Avett
dau of G. & N. Avett
Dec 30, 1896 - Feb 25, 1899 |
Claude Montgomery Hamby
Aug. 29, 1877 - May 19 1879 |
L. E. Deason
Age 17 |
Julia F. Deason
Died Dec. 21, 1893
Age 49 |
Edward Deason
Died May 17, 1891
Age 61 |
Edward Tracy
Pvt. Co. "C" 2nd Colorado Calvary |
Susan E. Ming
dau of J.D. & Ida Ming
11 months |
J. B. Wilkinson
Born November 10, 1864
Died September 15, 1905 |
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At one time or another, each of the above inscriptions have been recorded.
Many if not most of the stones have been destroyed or have dissappeared.
The cemetery was recorded in 1956 by the Daughters of the American Revolution
and in 1974 by David Dunnett for the Texas County Historical Commission.
I visited the cemetery in 1991 and found it very over grown and with few
visible markers. In the first recorded inventory of this cemetery it was
noted that there were about 50 additional graves marked with field stones.
Nancy R. Cannon Harrison the wife of D.C. Harrison and mother of Rhonda B.
Harrison Randol was the daughter of Carter C. and Martha Cannon who moved
to Tarrant Co. about 1854. D.C. Harrison was the orriginal owner of the land
this cemetery is located on and it was on the property line shared with his
father-in-law, C.C.Cannon.
This material is provided by Jean
Jones who has a research interest
in the Cannon family and its relatives in this cemetery.
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