Ayres Cemetery - Fort Worth, TX
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N 32° 44.872 W 097° 17.470
14S E 660094 N 3624627
This little cemetery is surrounded by an hotel. Little do people know when they make reservations that their room is above an unknown number of fever victims' graves!
Waymark Code: WM5WYJ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/22/2009
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From one Texas Historical Marker at the site:
In 1861 Benjamin Patton Ayres (ca. 1801-62) and his wife, Emily (Cozart) (ca. 1811-63), bought a 320-acre farm and set aside two acres on this hillside as a family cemetery. Ayres, who had served as the second Tarrant County clerk and who helped organize the Fort Worth First Christian Church, was the first buried here. An unknown number of graves, which lie outside the fenced family plot, include victims of spring fevers and Trinity River floods. None of their headstones have survived, but the Ayres Cemetery remains as a symbol of the area's early settlers.
William Alfred Sanderson is interred here and has his own Texas Historical Marker:
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