Mulberry United Methodist Church and Cemetery - Mulberry, TX - Churchyard Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

The church doesn't have much of an Internet presence beyond a small website and the usual web-spidered listings. The cemetery itself is a Historic Texas Cemetery, and a 2016 Texas Historical Marker provides some background:

Located approximately two miles south of the Red River, Mulberry was established in the early 1880s as a small farming community. One of the first settlers in Mulberry was Civil War Captain Thomas Lightfoot and his family from Alabama, who bought several thousand acres of land along the Red River. In 1883, Thomas Lightfoot donated land to the Mulberry Community to be used for a cemetery and a one-room school. Eventually, Mulberry School closed and half of its property was sold by D.B. Deupree in 1951 to the cemetery. Joe C. Denton paid paid for the land as a gift to the community.

The oldest part of the cemetery is located on the north end overlooking Mulberry Bottom. The first recorded burial on the property was that of two-year-old Allis May, in 1876. Other family burials date as far back as 1881. In the northwest corner of the original burial ground is the Mexican section shaded with trees. The first Mexican family to come to Mulberry was Ferman and Rossaria Portillo and their three children in 1902. Over the years the community experienced multiple natural disasters which took several lives. Some of these events include: The 1905 flooding of Mulberry Bottom, 1919 Mulberry Cyclone and the 1959 tornado which destroyed many of the tombstones and cemetery fence.

There are several war veterans buried in the cemetery including the only known Civil War veteran, B.F. Moseley. All veterans are honored by the main gate entrance flag pole, which is set in a concrete stand embedded with the Veterans of Foreign Wars emblem. A cross and monument stand on the midpoint between the original burial ground and the site of the old Mulberry School in memory of those lost and unmarked graves.

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A sad but interesting headstone here is one for Newton and Ida Price, and three of their children, who all died on April 9, 1919. The headstone was placed by the Woodmen of the World, and while it doesn't tell the story, multiple deaths on the same day tends to be ominous. It reads:

Newton L. Price
1879 Apr. 9, 1919
Ida Price
1883 Apr. 9, 1919
Bertine Price
1913 Apr. 9, 1919
Edgar Lee Price
1915 Apr. 9, 1919
Delton Price
1917 Apr. 9, 1919

They were all taken by a tornado. Gregory Hall has a wonderful website devoted to Mulberry, which today is a nice, quiet rural community not far from the Red River, and he has a page that tells the full story, with a photo of the family there.

Name of church or churchyard: Mulberry United Methodist Church and Cemetery Approximate Size: Large (100+)

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