Ayers Chapel Cemetery

Ayer's Chapel Cemetery
Egypt Community

Interment Place of African-American Persons
Kaufman County Texas

Photo by Drew Williams
Cornerstone of Ayers Chapel Church Building

Cornerstone from old Ayer's Chapel Church Building.

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Enumeration
Transcribed from the field notes of Marie Reasonover - 1998

SURNAME	FIRST	BIRTH	DEATH	NOTES
-----	Uncle Cole	NONE	NONE	"Borned a Slave" FORMER SLAVE**
ANDERSON	Alpha Corrine	8 Nov 1900	6 Sep 1965	"Mother"
ANDERSON	Mary	1878	1958
ANDERSON	A B	3 Dec 1874	15 Apr 1957
ANDREWS	Oliver	10 Oct 1894	6 Feb 1973
BARNETT	Ollie	10 Nov 1896	11 Mar 1973	TX Pvt U S Army WW I
BARNETT	Archie L	20 Aug 1920	17 Feb 1974	TX Pvt U S Army WW II
BARNETT	Horace	1927	1995	US Army
BEAN	Jessie	23 Jul 1899	9 May 1963	TX Pfc 342^nd Labor Bn QMC - WW I
BLANTON	Lucille	1904	1969
BLANTON	Baby	B & D	23 May 1925
BOOKER	Artice	8 Sep 1904	25 Apr 1965	DM w/ Julia
BOOKER	Julia	16 Oct 1906	26 Dec 1995
BURTON	James	22 Dec 1922	22 Dec 1990	S Sgt U S Army WW II
BURTON	Hattie	18 Feb 1894	11 May 1971
BURTON	Homer	14 Jan 1884	19 Jan 1994
BURTON	Albert	1850	1926	MASON - FORMER SLAVE**
BURTON	Aluan R	221 Jul 1890	4 Jun 1974
CALLEY	Micky Leshan	1971	1988	TEMP MARKER: Brook & thomas
CLIFTON	Ezell	2 Jan 1922	13 Aug 1978	Pfc U S Army WW II
COLEMAN	Ozell Chuck	4 Jul 1916	30 Jan 1988
COLEMAN	Nellie Irene Nobles	13 Nov 1920	3 Aug 1978
COLLIER	Emmett	1920	1987	Cpl US Army WW II
COX	Birdie	1896	1975
CURL	Moses	1900	1978	MASON - DM w/Lottie
CURL	Lottie	1902	1987
DARNELL	Silas	15 Feb 1907	7 Feb 1975
EDWARDS	Aberyham	1909	1984
FRANKLIN	Stella Tucker	16 Nov 1896	7 Nov 1959
GARRETT	T L	7 Dec 1919	15 Oct 1963	TX Pfc U S Army WW II
GARRETT	Edgar Jr	3 Jun 1918	25 Oct 1960	TX MM 3 USNR WW II
GARRETT	Elsie	1896	1966	TEMP MARKER: Citizens Undertaking Co
GRAHAM	Arizona	14 Nov 1901	14 Jan 1979
GRATEHOUSE	James	10 Jun 1900	27 May 1972
GRATEHOUSE	Christine	10 Jan 1910	NONE
HARRY	Georgia	1880	1923
HENRY	Herbert	15 Jan 1900	11 Apr 1985
HENRY	Ollie M	NONE	14 Jun 1997	TEMP: Golden Gate
HICKMAN	Daniel	16 Jul 1867	7 Oct 1918	DM w/ Nellie
HICKMAN	Nellie	31 Aug 1873	21 Jul 1935
HICKMAN	Viola	30 Mar 1890	6 Aug 1934
HICKMAN	Rhoda	15 Jul 1891	8 Mar 1916
HICKMAN	Jennie	16 Feb 1893	21 Oct 1967
HICKMAN	Caroline	30 Jun 1895	26 Mar 1946
HICKMAN	Alma	8 Sep 1896	28 Nov 1929
HICKMAN	Ulysses	24 Aug 1901	14 Jan 1979
HICKMAN	Arizona	14 Nov 1901	14 Jan 1979
HICKMAN	Edward	14 Oct 1903	14 Jan 1979
HICKMAN	Conley	13 Jan 1907	4 Jan 1937
HICKMAN	Ivy B	6 Feb 1909	10 Jul 1930
HICKMAN	Johnnie	25 Jul 1905	30 May 1930
HICKMAN	Daniel	1863	1918	**FORMER SLAVE
JACKSON	Clara	10 Oct 1919	28 Nov 1995	TEMP MARKER: Thomas & Sons-Kaufman
JACKSON	T C	1927	1960	TEMP MARKER: Thomas & Sons-Kaufman
JACKSON	Louise M	28 Sep 1921	13 Dec 1985
JEFFERY	Jonathan Wade	8 Apr 1980	8 Apr 1985
JOHNSON	Charles D	12 Mar 1956	25 May 1994
JOHNSON	Baby Boy	B & D	27 Jul 1984	TEMP MARKER: Thomas & Sons-Kaufman
JONES	Albert	1917	1919
KNIGHT	Marshall	24 Nov 1887	14 May 1980
KNIGHT	Dora	17 Sep 1893	24 Jun 1982
KNIGHT	Rudell	24 Jun 1933	17 Jul 1981
KNIGHT	Daddy Bill	13 Jun 1843	30 Sep 1913	**FORMER SLAVE
KNIGHT	Amanda	6 May 1865	9 Mar 1917
KNIGHT	Bill	25 Oct 1917	12 Oct 1955	TX tec5 98^th Eng WW II
LEONARD	Doris	2 May 1914	15 Nov 1977	"Mother"
LEWIS	Ruthie G	17 Sep 1918	28 May 1972
LEWIS	Michael N	NONE	21 Mar 1983	Age 27 Years
LEWIS	Barry Joe	NONE	21 Dec 1991	Age 41 Years
MAD____M	Mrs Ossie Marie	23 Jul 1937	25 Mar 1901
MAN	Sophie Berry	4 May 1924	NONE
MANN	Warbell Berry	19 Aug 1919	6 Mar 1965	TX Pfc 98^th Eng Bn WW II
MATHIS	Garlene	18 Sep 1911	16 Dec 1931
MATHIS	Rev. Frank	5 Jun 1884	9 Nov 1953	DM w/ Willie
MATHIS	Willie E	1888	1982
MITCHELL	Charles	17 Jan 1924	21 Jan 1924	"Son" DM w/ Bobbie B
MITCHELL	Bobbie B	15 Oct 1937	NONE
MOORE	Sydney Danielle	B & D	10 Oct 1995
MORROW	Jonathan	B & D	10 Dec 1981
MORROW	Mary	22 Oct 1898	3 Feb 1960
NEWSOME	Music	1 Jan 1888	14 Nov 1955
NOBLES	Dorothy L	6 Nov 1934	1 Oct 1995
NOBLES	Daniel P	20 Feb 1922	8 Nov 1993
NOBLES	Jimmie M	16 May 1950	4 Jul 1981
PROX	Oscar Jr	1939	1984	TEMP MARKER: Thomas & Sons-Kaufman
RAMSEY	Jesse Jr	5 Apr 1946	1 Aug 1986
RAMSEY	Jessie Lee	15 Nov 1925	11 Jun 1995	"Kemp"
REPP	James	24 Mar 1906	4 Oct 1994
RIVERS	Jimmy R	13 Jil 1951	15 Feb 1983
ROBERTSON	Calvin	31 Aug 1888	30 Jul 1966	TX 412^nd Labor Bn WWI
ROBINSON	Oscar	26 Apr 1920	12 Dec 1993	U S A F - Korea
SHAVERS	Isaiiha	15 Oct 1926	1946	TX Steward Mate 3c USNR WWII
SMITH	Robert Sr	14 Apr 1921	10 Mar 1985	Pfc U S Army WW II
STEARNE	P T	1890	1981	TEMP MARKER: Thomas & Sons
SUMMERS	Nellie Hickman	31 Aug 1872	21 Jul 1935
TUCKER	Dilcie	1836	1937	**FORMER SLAVE
TUCKER	Randall	1838	1939	**FORMER SLAVE
TUCKER	Ettia Nash	8 Aug 1913	25 Mar 1964
WADE	Coleman	1911	1970	"Husband"
WALKER	Ella Bell	4 Dec 1919	3 Jan 1994
WHITE	Harry T	15 Jan 1909	10 Jul 1986	DM w/ Emma
WHITE	Emma J	4 Jul 1907	NONE
WILLIAMS	Ned	1922	1992	DM w/ Earline
WILLIAMS	Earline	1930	1980
WREN	Mary	NONE	8 Jun 1996	Age 55 TEMP MARKER: Golden Gate F H
WREN	Charlie Ray Jr	11 Jul 1936	20 Nov 1996	MASON
WREN	Willie Lee	1 Feb 1927	21 Sep 1993
WREN	Charlie	17 May 1906	13 May 1976
WREN	Henry Lee	18 Feb 1911	22 Oct 1953
WREN	Tommie G	1 Jul 1951	1980
WREN	Dan	14 Jan 1888	30 Mar 1975
WREN	Leroy	28 Nov 1884	3 Dec 1960
WREN	Eva M	11 Feb 1897	26 Sep 1989
WREN	Wilson	1894	1981
WYATT	Bennie Doris Collier	11 Aug 1952	4 Jun 1987	TEMP: golden Gate

There are more than 70 graves in the cemetery which are marked only by Stones, Plastic flowers, Pots, Bricks, Pipes and Stakes. There are more than 40 other graves which are evident by mounded or indented soil that have no items marking them.

Known Burials from Death Records

Submitted by Linda Feagin Harwell

FOLLOWING WERE REGISTERED AS BURIED IN AYRES CEMETERY

NAME	DATES	SOURCE	OTHER INFO
Anders, Wes	73 yrs-Mar 16, 1913	KCC Bk 2, pg 197	**FORMER SLAVE - Birth year 1840
Anderson, Bennie	___ - Sep 07, 1919	KCC Bk 4&KL, pg 2	s/o A. B. & Mary Ayres Anderson
Cleaton, Louis	64 yrs 5 mos 9dys-Dec 13, 1929	KCC Bk 3, pg 147	s/o Henry & Mandy Erwin Cleaton
Nobles, Rachel Ann	Feb 12, 1949-Feb 14, 1949	KCC Bk 49, pg 957	d/o Jeanetta Nobles
Shaw, Jack	23 yrs- Nov 29, 1916	KCC Bk 3, pg 52	s/o A. & Louisa Johnson Shaw
Warren, Nettie	___ - Dec 18, 1919	KCC Bk 4&KL, pg 3	d/o John & Cora Nichols Karo

FOLLOWING WERE REGISTERED AS BURIED IN EGYPT CEMETERY

NAME	DATES	SOURCE	OTHER INFO
Alexander, Claud	Abt 33 yrs-Oct 21, 1918	KCC Bk 4&KL, pg 25
Ayres, Glover	Abt 52 yrs-Aug 04, 1934	KCC Bk B&D, pg 41	s/o Mack & Ellen Womack Ayers
Ayres, Perry	Dec 24, 1886-Jan 14, 1936	KCC Bk B&D, pg 48	s/o Mack & Ellen Davenport Ayers
Ayres, Pink	Jun 11, 1884-Jan 24, 1918	KCC Bk 4&KL, pg 7	s/o Wess & Caroline Ayres
Barnett, Pink	65yrs-Apr 13, 1946	CT Bk 9, pg 127	s/o Cage & Martha Crouch Barnett
Garrett, Milton	Dec 12, 1928-Aug 10, 1937	KCC Bk 4&KL, pg 5	s/o Edgar & Elsie Anderson Garrett
McKinney, __	Jul 13, 1915-Jul 13, 1915	KCC Bk 2, pg 294	s/o R. L. McKinney

KCC = Kaufman County Courthouse;
CT = City of Terrell

This Kaufman County page was created on September 8, 1999.
Enumeration and Known Burials from Death Records added January 30, 2003.
Color photo added June 24, 2007
Copyright © 1999-2008 by Abby Balderama
Coordinator of the Kaufman County, TXGenWeb Project site
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