Ayres Cemetery
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N 32° 44.872 W 097° 17.470
14S E 660094 N 3624627
This tiny cemetery is located in the parking lot of a hotel off of Beach St and I-30 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County.
Waymark Code: WMXQQ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/05/2006
Views: 38
Index Entry: Ayres Cemetery
Address: 2500 block Scott St.
City: Fort Worth
County: Tarrant
Subject Codes: GY; OC
Year Marker Erected: 1984
Designations: na
Marker Location: N. Side of Rd., at intersection of Taft & Scott St.
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Repairs Completed: none
Marker Number: 253
Marker Text:
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 fieldstones have survived, but the Ayres Cemetery remains as a symbol of the area's early settlers. (1984)
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