Old Walling Cemetry - Houston Co., TX

OLD WALLING CEMETERY

Submitted by Ava Pennington Bush

Located west of Grapeland. Travel FM 227 (Daly Road) to home of Delbert Pennington. Site lies approximately one mile directly in front of house.

In March 1965, the area was identified by 84-year old Shadrick Johnson. Only 6 or 7 graves were evident; however it had been a community cemetery enclosed by a cedar picket fence beside the well-traveled "Old Crockett Road" that went via Wesley Chapel. Some native sandstones were incised with initials.

Addie Pennington Wherry attended James Walling's funeral and thought it was the last one held there.

Flora Lively Pennington told her son, Milo, that the M.W.H. stone belonged to her maternal grandmother.

Mary Jo Kyle Tucker went to Crockett in the wagon with her Father, "Dock" Kyle, around 1900 and passed the cemetery. He broke off two pickets and drove the sharp ends into the ground to mark the graves of his uncle and aunt. Their deaths were a short time apart. Their daughters returned to Pickens County, Ala. with their baby brother, William III, when their Mother died.

W.P.S.
b: ; d: ; identity not known.

HEROD

M. W. H. Mandy Walling; b: 1836; d: ; b. Tenn; d/o James R Walling; w/o Dock Herod

WALLING

J. R W. James R; b: 1812; d: ; b. Tenn.; h/o Martha Gordon; b/o Polly W. Pennington

KYLE

John Henry, Jr.; b: 1802; d: 1870; unmarked; b. Union Dist., S.C. d. Houston Co.; s/o Martha Ann Bankhead & John H.

Kyle

Rosannah; b: -; d: -; w/o JohnH. Kyle, Jr.; M/o Elizabeth (Betty), Rosannah, Henry, William III.