Ayres Cemetery

Fort Worth, Texas

Photos contributed by Rob Yoder

 

AYRES CEMETERY

In 1861 Benjamin Patton Ayres (ca. 1801-62) and his wife, Emily (Cozart) (ca. 1811-63), bought a 320-acre farm and set aside two acres on this hillside as a family cemetery. Ayres, who had served as the second Tarrant County clerk and who helped organize the Fort Worth First Christian Church, was the first buried here. An unknown number of graves, which lie outside the fenced family plot, include victims of spring fevers and Trinity River floods. None of their headstones have survived, but the Ayres Cemetery remains as a symbol of the area's early settlers.

(1984)

  

John R. Cushman

  

John R. Cushman

  

Mary Ayres Cushman

  

Ida Frances Ayres

  

Jas. H. Ayres

  

Joseph Ayres

William Ayres

  

Louise Ayres

  

B.P Ayres

Emily Ayres

  

Isabella F. & William A. Sanderson

   

Views of the cemetery with the hotel in the background.

 

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