Tarpley Cemetery - Tarpley, TX
Posted by: 
jhuoni
N 29° 38.475 W 099° 15.749
14R E 474593 N 3279062
On FM 462, turn on Tarpley Cemetery Rd - you have to open the gate and close the gate - then travel down an unpaved road. It's not a bad road when it's dry but I'm not sure what it is like during when it is muddy.
Waymark Code: WM12MWR
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/17/2020
Views: 3
With approximately 400 interments ranging from late 1800s to present day.
From the Handbook of Texas Online, Ann Graham Gaines, "TARPLEY, TX," (
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"TARPLEY, TEXAS. Tarpley is at the junction of Farm roads 462 and 470, on Williams Creek twelve miles southwest of Bandera in south central Bandera County. In 1878 a post office named Hondo Cañon opened on Williams Creek. In 1899 it was moved several miles south and renamed Tarpley after Tarpley Prickett, the son of postmaster John Prickett. That year the Buckner family began renting rooms in their home to travelers. By 1900 a store and a smithy were attached to the post office. In 1902 a school was built, and later a Baptist church was erected. Tarpley had a population estimated at twenty-five in 1925 and forty in 1984. In 1990 it was thirty. The population remained the same in 2000."