Dilbeck Cemetery Veterans Memorial - Peaster, TX - Non-Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

The memorial reads:

For God Country and Family

Dilbeck Cemetery
Veterans Memorial

Barnes Richard W          CPL 5th TWF Tenn     CSA
Bellenger Moore F         Co. I 5th Miss Inf   CSA
Boykin James W            Co B. 8th TN Cav     CSA
Brown Robert              Co A 1 MO SM Cav     CSA
Lain Williams             Co K 11th TX Inf     CSA
Neill George F            PVT Co K TX Inf      CSA
Richardson Landon         Co E 4th TN Cav      CSA
Ward Neal                 Co C 10 MO Cav       CSA
Armstrong Auburn          PFC Ammo Train       WWI
Dillard Henry Virgil      PFC Co B4            WWI
Poe James T               Coast Arty           WWI
Bailey Loyd L             PFC Army             WWII
Brown Fred W              PVT Army             WWII
Burkhalter William        BM 2 Navy            WWII
Glendening Virgil F       Navy                 WWII
Cox Willoughby W          SGT Marine           WWII
Hooten Otis P             PVT Army AC          WWII
Hughes Ollie B Sr         PVT Army             WWII
Jones Jack C              Army AF              WWII
Kasablan Mildred W        Army AF              WWII
Parsons William H         CPL Army             WWII
Phillips Barney R         PVT Army             WWII
Pritchard Leslie V        CPL Army             WWII
Pritchard Vaughn N        PVT Army             WWII
Scoville Thomas G         PVT Army             WWII
Stevens Archie            SGT Air Force        WWII
Stevens Truman D          TX MAJ Marine        WWII
Stults William R          TSGT Army            WWII
Lain Eugene A             PFC Army             Korea
Dobbs Haywood Bell        LCPL Marine          Vietnam

Pritchard Wm Clayton      PFC Army             WW II
Stevens Loyd Henry        TEC5 Army            WW II
Carroll Wm Loron          TSGT Army            WW II
Arsenault Danny           LCPL Marine          Vietnam
Garner David Lee Sr       LCPL Marine          Korea
Neill Jimmie Sims         CPL Army             WW II

A 1998 Texas Historical Marker provides some cemetery background:

Richard W. Barnes of Tennessee bears the distinction of resting in the earliest recorded grave on this site, dated September 1883. His wife Elizabeth (Green) and seven known descendants also are buried here. More than 15 burials had already taken place on this site when Joe C. Moore sold the surrounding land to J.L.F. Dilbeck in 1893. Dilbeck, a merchant, buried several members of his own family in the cemetery.

Serving a radius of about five miles, the cemetery was primarily used by Peaster community Baptists until the turn of the century. Those interred here include farmers, merchants, teachers, ministers, and other settlers. One such pioneer was Sarah A. (Curlin) Dodson, who arrived in the Republic of Texas in 1839. She came to the Peaster community after the death of her husband, Charles Dodson, Jr. Sarah Dodson worked as a midwife while raising six children. Her descendants remained in Parker County.

A 1997 count revealed 344 marked graves within 2.7 acres in Dilbeck Cemetery, including twenty-five anonymous graves marked only with rocks. At that time more than 23 members of the Stevens clan comprised the largest family group, and more than twenty veterans of American and international conflicts were interred here.

Type of Memorial: Multi-War Memorial Wars mentioned (Multi-war only): United States Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam In Honor Of: Dilbeck Cemetery Veterans Marker Text: See Long Description Date of dedication: 6/2/2001 Who Put it Here?: Dilbeck Cemetery Description of Memorial: The memorial is made of gray granite, with three white five pointed stars between the memorial title and the list of those buried here. The majority of burials are listed on the front, and additions are up at the top on the reverse. The date of placement is in the lower right corner, up front.

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