Gray's Prairie Cemetery

Gray's Prairie Cemetery

Gray's Prairie Community
Kaufman County, Texas

History: Probably one of the oldest burial sites in the entire county.
The grave of Dr. Allen is the second oldest known burial in Kaufman County marked with an inscribed tombstone - he died in 1850. Some of the earliest pioneers to the area are buried here with death dates in the 1850's.

Condition: Very bad - overgrown in briars and weeds, most tombstones are laying flat or broken. Several sections of the old antique fencing have been damaged by falling trees or by vandals. The entire area is covered in a blooming purple jasmine and shaded by towering pecan, oak and cedar trees. A lovely place in need of some attention.

Enumeration:

Abecrombie, Eugenia	June 25 1895	June 19 1897	"Dau of R C & E C Abercrombie"
Allen, Dr. H. M.	March 16 1821	Nov 9 1850	*Oldest burial in cemetery - appears to be hand made tombstone - hand inscribed Footstone "H M A" also hand made and hand carved
Allen, David	Died 08 Jan 1866	Aged 38 yrs	"Husband, Father, Son, Soldier"
Blair, William	15 Jun 1834	Jan 4 1920
Blair, Lucy Ellen	July 25 1850	Jan 5 1912	"Wife of Wm Blair" Double Footstone with William "W.B. ~ L.E.B."
Blair, Thomas William	1864	1930	"Father"
Bowld_n, Hannah	died Mar 29 1854	age 55 yrs, 2 mos 18 dys	"Born in England" "Consort to James"
Branch, John W	Feb 14 1819	Jan 28 1896	"Born in Cumberland Co N.C."
Buchanan, Robert Edward	June 28 1856	Jan 15	1879
Buchanan, Laura Ella	Dec 30 1872	Nov 10 1876
Buchanan, G. A.	12-25-1832	12-31-1911	Epitaph on stone reads: "Under neath this stone doth lye As much Virtue as could die. Which when alive did Vigor give To as much Honor as could live"
Buchanan, Fanny E.	May 15 1854	Feb 19 1894	"Dau of G A & M E Buchanan"
Buchanan, Gilbert S.	Nov 5 1854	May 23	1898
Buchanan, Ollie	Sept 15 1882	Nov 7 1883	"Dau of C P & L A Buchanan"
Buchanan, Annie	Jan 9 1867	June 23 1890	"Wife of C P Buchanan"
Burrell, Alma	Aug 22 1878	Aug 23 1900	"Wife of W A Burrell"
Clark, Martha A.	Jan 3 1871	July 14 1882	"Daughter of J E & C E Clark"
Cowen, M.	Jan 31 1826	Sept 19 1904
Cowen, Margaret A.	Oct 29 1834	June 14 1932
Dandridge, Callie Bryant	Dec 30 1861	Dec 31 1904
Daugherty, Diana S.	born 1825	died 30 Jan 1857	"Wife of Andrew J. Daugherty" Footstone "D.S.D."
Dowling, Thomas Jefferson	June 17 1842	Sept 9 1912
Franklin, William Riley	1825	1891
Gardner, Irene	Oct 20 1913	Jan 13 1919	"Our Darling Sleeps Sweetly Here"
Gillaspie, Albert	Oct 31 1875	Nov 14 1876
Gillaspie, Dock R.	Oct 27 1852	Mar 19 1879
Gillaspie, Catherine	Jan 8 1853	May 11 1884	"Wife of D. R. Gillaspie"
Hobbs, W. J.	Aug 14 1850	June 16 1903
Hodge, Elias B.	Nov 18 1875	Juy 25 1882	"Son of W & M K Hodge"
Hodge, Fannie K.	Jan 4 1867	Sept 30 1905
Hodge, Warren	July 16 1826	Apr 5 1898
Hodge, John R.	Nov 28 1864	Oct 26 1895
Jones, William O	Jan 20 1879	Sept 2 1876	(dates are reversed on stone)
Jones, Jno. B.	Apr 28 1880	Nov 26 1881	(double Zinc obelisk marker, 2-sided) "Sons of W.A.J. & S.E. Jones"
Jones, Wm. F.	Feb 5 1820	Feb 27 1889	"Aged 60 yrs 22 days"
Kannenberg, Herbert	Nov 18 1904	Dec 4 1904
Kannenberg, Mary Ruby	May 9 1902	Jan 23 1904
Kannenberg, John N.	Dec 31 1866	Nov 8 1905
Kilman, Margaret	Feb 8 1815	Jan 21 1886	"Wife of S. Kilman"
Lagow, Nora Belle	July 21 1885	Oct 24 1918	"Woodmen Circle-Grove Chapter #461"
Mallary, J.C.	Feb 16 1892	May 29 1892	"Little Joe" "Son of T R & J W Mallary"
Meir, Carl	"Born Jan 6 1832 in West Preusse	Died Feb 19 1882"	"Age 50 yr 1 mo 8 das"
Moore, Nona	Dec 22 1911	June 7 1932
Moore, Clarence	0 Sept 16 1909	Sept 10 1933
Moore Carson E.	May 21 1916	Aug 3 1949	"Tex Pvt 44 Armd Regt 12 Armd Div WWII"
Moore, Anzley J.	Aug 3 1870	Dec 24 1950
Moore Sarah A.	Oct 9 1882	__________
Moore, Rosie A.	Dec 23 1904	Dec 17 1906
Moore, Mollie Garrett	Nov 10 1874	Oct 7 1900	"Mother"
Moore, Alfred	Aug 2 1902	Dec 22 1950
Rogers, Mollie	April 17 1845	May 26 1906	"Wife of Zach T Rogers ~ born Marshall Co Miss."
Workman, Agnes Elizabeth	July 24 1866	July 15 1914
Workman, H. B.	1902	1907	"Buddie"
Workman, James J.	1852	1942
Workman, Katerine Marie	1897	1898
Workman, Robert Oscar	1887	1890
Workman, Bessie	1887	1890

Unknowns:

Broken stone	next to Mollie Moore	unreadable
Broken stone	leaning against old iron filigree fence	Tippett ___?___ Infant son of __?__
Broken stone	pieces piled next to Dr. Allen	pieced together reads: Mabel Our Darling __?__ June 13 18_?_ Aged 3 days
Broken stone	next to Diana Daugherty	unreadable
Broken stone	next to Warren Hodge	unreadable
Broken stone	next to Mollie Roger	"Sleeps Quietly, Waits for Thee" born 1873 died __?__
Broken stone	leaning against David Allen	"Allen __?__ b__-___ died-____
Broken stone	leaning against chain link fence	"Bowles, Infant Daughter died 1878"
Broken stone	found laying under a blooming ground cover which covers about 2/3 of Cemetery	Da__?__ty Andrew Ja__?__ "The Light is Gone Out"
Broken stone	leaning against tree	"___?___ Victory Fidelia 1856~1882"
Broken stone	in several pieces, piled next to entrance gate
Broken stone	leaning next to cedar tree, under branches	McPeeters, J__?__ Son of J & M Died 26 M_?_ 1852 Age2 yrs 16 dys
Broken stone	in several pieces, piled next to Jones brothers'	zinc marker
Broken stone	in several pieces, under large cedar tree	"Lovely" or "Lonely" 1888
Cement stone	appears hand made name unreadable, under cedar tree	"R.I.P. 1787 1852"
Cement stone	next to Alfred Moore
Circle of rocks marking graves	next to Wm & Jno Jones
Footstone "O.A.B."	next to Alfred Moore
Footstone "E.B.H."	next to Irene Gardner
Footstone "S.E.B."	next to G A Buchanan
Footstone "J.M.D."	next to Warrren Hodge
Stack of old clay bricks	near water's edge and another stack of same
bricks	near an area enclosed in barbed wire around five small oak trees with bricks in shape of a cross on ground beside it	looks like two separate graves inside fence
Stone marking grave	next to Alfred Moore
Stone marking grave	next to Alma Burrell
Stone marking grave	near the broken Da__?__ty tombstone under ground cover
1 Stump	between Dock & Albert Gillaspie
5 Wooden Stumps	in a row near chain link fence
1 Wooden Tombstone	rounded top	near the Jones brothers zinc marker
2 Wooden Stumps	near the water's edge by brick pile
1 Wooden Stump	inside old fence near entrance gate

Enumerated March 27, 1999 by Kathey Kelley Hunt, Kenna and Rachel Leseman

Known burials without markers
taken from previous enumeration of April 30, 1980
by A. Patton & M. Reasonover:

Abbott, B A		died June 13 1911	aged 61 yrs
Aday, Meds Etta	Aug 23 1887	Aug 20 1913
Blair, Thomas William	Jun 9 1864	June 28 1930
Dowlney, Mary H	Dec 16 __?_	Feb 12 1929	Aged 87 yrs
Garrett, Deilia		died Mar 10 1911	Dau of J & M Hobbs Garrett
Guthrie, James Davie	May 8 1860	May 28 1929	*Death Certificate and KCC Kemp Bk., pg 28 state he is buried in Gray's Prairie Cemetery but TDT Jun 4, 1929 states he is buried in Pyle Prairie Cemetery.
Knowles, Thomas	Jun 15 1890	Oct 24 1911
Knowles, Fannie		died 1911	age 22 yrs
Lasater, Mrs. Martha E	Nov 29 1828	June 10 1910
McKinney, Infant Son of W C McKinney		died July 16 1910	age 7 mos
Mixon, Delley E	Apr 6 1862	Mar 4 1937
Reeves, Mrs. Nancy		died Sept 26 1912
Simpson, Emma		died June 14 1911	Dau of Henry & Emma Davis Simpson
Stamps, Norman B		died Apr 7 1910	age 43 yrs
Wilson, George		died Jan 12 1914	Age 65 years

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