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 |
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Views of the cemetery with the hotel in the background. |
Tarrant County, TXGenWeb |
This page last modified on 16 Feb 2003.