Pioneer's Rest Cemetery
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N 32° 45.939 W 097° 19.764
14S E 656481 N 3626542
This marker is just inside the gates of the cemetery it commemorates.
Note that the cemetery is privately owned and only open Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Waymark Code: WM1MP5
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/03/2007
Views: 66
Index Entry: Pioneer's Rest Cemetery
Address: 600 block Samuels Ave., Pioneer's Rest Cemetery
City: Fort Worth
County: Tarrant
Subject Codes: GY;
Year Marker Erected: 1979
Designations: na
Marker Location: 600 block Samuels Ave., Pioneer's Rest Cemetery, Fort Worth
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 4038
Marker Text:
This burial ground was started in the summer of 1850 upon the deaths of Sophie and Willis Arnold, children of Major Ripley A. Arnold (1817-1853), commander of the troops at Fort Worth. Arnold's friend, Doctor Adolphus Gouhenant, set aside a three-acre burial site at that time. In 1871, after a cemetery association was begun, Baldwin Samuels gave three adjoining acres. Many early Fort Worth settlers, including 75 Civil War veterans, are buried here. This site also contains the graves of Major Arnold and General Edward H.Tarrant (1799-1858), for whom Tarrant County was named. (1979)
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