Shady Cemetery

Seymour, Texas
GPS Coords: 33.53383, -99.385
From Seymour take Highway 277 to County Road 436. It leaves the highway at an angle going almost due west at a large red brick house that is also abandoned. Follow this about 1 3/4 miles. The cemetery is on the back side of a tank dam in a clump of mesquite trees about 100 yards from the road.

Old abandoned cemetery, very overgrown with mesquite trees and weeds. There is evidence that there was a fence around the whole thing. Now three plots containing six of the nine discernable graves are fenced. There is some evidence that there may have been other graves there also. Those marked in any way have been recorded.

These are all the discernable graves.
Copied by Wanda Irby.

1.  Marshal Howell FRANKLIN wroght iron fence
	Aug.14 1884
	June 16 1907

2.  Lena Ruth
	dau of
	H.J. & J. HENDERSON
	Nov.14 1904
	Feb. 17 1905
	Hold her, O" Father in thine arms And let her henceforth be
	A messenger of love between Our human hearts and thee.

3.   Harvey
	Harvey J. 2. & 3. Enclosed in nice pipe fence with on it.
	Son of H.J. & J. HENDERSON
	June 6 1906
	Aug. 27 1909

4.  Sleep in Jesus
	Nanie Lee dau. Of
	P.G. & F.A. BASDEN
	born Jan. 6 1894
	died Nov. 30 1905
	There is no death in Heaven no fence For they who gain that shore
	Have won their immortality And they can die no more.
	   BASDEN

5.  OUR DARLING
      	Welcome Snyder stone broken--no fence
	   born
	Jan. 8 1907
	   died
	May 15 1909
           BABY

6.  HOPE
    	Ruby D. Dau. Of
	W.T. & J.E.
	MARIS
	     born
	Feb. 11 1885
	     died
	June 16 1903

7.  Sandstone with no information

8.  Peace Perfect Peace 6,7, & 8 have a rock curb and a chain link fence.
	Julie E.
	Wife of
	W.T. MARIS
	Born Nov. 29 1866
	Died Feb. 10 1906
	Our darling mother has gone before
	To greet us on the Golden Shore.

9.  Maurice son of stone is broken three ways--no fence
	J.E. & Willie
	McCLURE
	born Feb 3, 1901
	died June 2 1904

10.  T.M. PRATT   Masonic emblem on the other side. It is only stone facing west.
	1828--1909