Tarrant County TXGenWeb - Spring Garden Cemetery

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Spring Garden Cemetery
Bedford, Texas

This inventory appeared in the November 1982 issue of Footprints, the quarterly publication of the Fort Worth Genealogical Society. It is reprinted here with permission.

The site of Spring Garden Cemetery has been demolished both by agricultural operations and by residential development for the past few years. The graves, now indistinguishable, lie directly south of the Texas Historical Marker for Spring Garden Cemetery, in Bedford along Cheek-Sparger Road a short distance west of Jackson Drive. Those monuments which have been discovered are now in the custody of the Tarrant County Historical Commission.

Persons whose monuments have been recovered:

1.
Peter K. Matthews, b. March 8, 1824, died Feb. 12, 1869

2.
Jesse O. Boyles, b. Feb. 8, 1865, died Sept. 30, 1867

3.
"___AS___" fragmentary sandstone, "Nov. 18, AD 18__/Nov. 5, AD 18__"

4.
infant Valentine, dau. of R. T. and M. S. Valentine, b. and d. June 30, 1871

5.
Mary H. Valentine, Sen., dau. of R. T. and M. A. Valentine, b. Jan 17, 1873, died Feb. 8, 1873 or 1875

6.
R. M. Wade, b. Nov. 29, 1841, died Dec. 20, 1870

Interments known to be in the cemetery for whom no stone has been found:

7.
Newton H. Cheek, died March 24, 1876

8.
Maudie M. Cheek, died July 31, 1886

9.
John (or Tom) Morrow

10.
George Rice Parker, 1844-1883

11.
John Weddle, died March 13, 1876

12.
Priscilla, wife of John Weddle, died Nov. 25, 1884

The above inventory compiled by Michael E. Patterson, Tarrant County Historical Commission.

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