FIRST Person Interred in Nineveh Cemetery - Comanche County, TX
N 32° 06.424 W 098° 42.719
14S E 527173 N 3552339
A 2000 Texas Historical Marker at Nineveh Cemetery, west of the old Duster community in rural Comanche County, notes that the first burial here was that of Elizabeth McNeely, back in 1890.
Waymark Code: WMZYB5
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/22/2019
Views: 2
This is a small family cemetery, and it's fairly well-maintained, but it appears that the caretakers are taking a break during the winter months. Mrs. McNeely is buried in the oldest section of the cemetery in the northwest corner, with a plot to herself, and her headstone has a simple inscription:
Elizabeth McNeely
1804 -- 1890
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The historical marker provides some background:
Settlement in the community that became known as Nineveh began as some Southerners moved west after the close of the Civil War. In 1886, Hezekiah Bellamy gave two acres for a school and cemetery around this site. A young schoolmaster who was a graduate of Harvard University in Massachusetts named the school and cemetery for Nineveh in ancient Assyria. The first person to be interred here was Elizabeth McNeely (1804-1890). Her granddaughter, Minnie McNeely Dukes (1885-1972), was a teacher and community leader at Ninevah, and the Dukes family has maintained the historic graveyard. The area around the cemetery gradually became known as Old Nineveh. There are about 24 graves in the cemetery, including those of members of several pioneer Comanche County families.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1890
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