Merrifield Cemetery - Dallas, TX
N 32° 44.836 W 096° 51.401
14S E 700808 N 3625302
The Merrifield Cemetery is located at the southeast corner of West Jefferson Boulevard and South Hampton Road, Dallas, TX. It is long-inactive, with at least twenty burials.
Waymark Code: WMWD79
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/17/2017
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Due to vandalism that left a handful of stubs, the only headstones we have now are for John Merrifield, his second wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Joseph. Most accounts reference at least twenty burials, and a 1981 Texas Historical Marker provides some background:
John Merrifield (1792-1873) was the patriarch of a Kentucky family who migrated to the Dallas County area in the late 1840s. In 1851 he purchased a farm here which included this site. It was first used as a cemetery in the late 1860s. The only marked graves are those of Merrifield and his second wife Elizabeth (1802-69). The unmarked gravesites here are estimated to number over twenty. As the burial ground of a pioneer area family, the Merrifield Cemetery provides a vital link to those who were among the first to open the Dallas region to settlement.
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Dallas, TX
Approximate number of graves: 20+
Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained
Cemetery Website: [Web Link]
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