Mrs. John Givens - New Electra Memorial Cemetery - Electra, TX
N 34° 02.742 W 098° 55.005
14S E 507683 N 3767226
Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle headstone for Mrs. John F. Givens in New Electra Memorial Cemetery, Electra, TX.
Waymark Code: WM1281P
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/25/2020
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There are actually four cemeteries in this area, spawning massive confusion about who is buried in which cemetery: Findagrave has many listings that are not in the correct cemetery, a bureaucrat's dream should someone wish to clean it all up. Coming up from Electra on TX 25, the cemeteries are just north of US 287. To the right is the easy one, New Electra Memorial Cemetery, with the Cross family museum just on the other side of the entry arch. To the left is Old Electra Memorial Cemetery, and behind it is Dick Sparks Cemetery. Where it has been fuzzy in the past is that there has been no line of demarcation between the Old Electra Memorial Cemetery and Electra Memorial Park Cemetery, which borders it to the north. Cemetery signs have led to confusion, and neither Bing Maps nor Mapquest are any help. Google Maps at least has the label correct for New Electra Memorial Cemetery, but current street views are not helpful regarding which cemetery is which. As of March of 2019, all have the proper names on their access gates, and there are signs on the border between Old Electra and Electra Memorial Park.
With that said...
By modern standards, there might be some outrage that her final resting place identifies her only as "Mrs. John F. Givens", someone's property, rather than her proper name, which was "Daisy Dale Givens". She is buried with her husband and other Givens family members, and her headstone has a palm leaf in the upper corner to complement the organizational emblem, with this inscription:
Mrs. John F.
Givens
1873 -- 1927
Faithful to her trust,
Even unto death.