Karla Lang, Special Collections Librarian, a distant cousin, and a friend went to Kyle Cemetery iin the early 1990s and photographed 89 burial sites that included some headstones, but mostly depressions in the ground where headstones had been located, but are now mostly gone. The cemetery is on oil and gas lease property and is not available to the general public. Karla explained that they walked for over a mile through rough land to get to the cemetery. The cemetery location is very overgrown with brush and fallen trees. I do not believe that it was ever fenced and cows have possibly trod over it.
This is the present gate to the oil and gas lease property where Kyle Cemetery is located.
Lanny Medlin, a professional Texas photographer and historian, shared pictures with me last summer through Karla Lang that appear at the www.findagrave.com Kyle Cemetery, Anderson County, Texas website.
See: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=984275&CScn=Kyle&CScntry=4&CSst=46&CScnty=2520& for www.findagrave.com Kyle Cemetery.
Evidence of the condition of Kyle Cemetery, Anderson County, Texas in the early 1990s.
The cemetery is located on a little knoll in the woods. Many of the monuments are in bad shape, and several are broken and scattered about. This old cemetery received its last burial in 1923.
Further evidence of the condition of Kyle Cemetery, Anderson County, Texas in the early 1990s.
Double headstone for GGGGrandfather James Malachi Gray and wife Henrietta Elizabeth Williams Gray at Kyle Cemetery, Anderson County, Texas, probably placed by Great-Granddaughters Lura and Ethel Audry.
James Malachi Gray (1830-1922) was born in Fayette County, Alabama. At the age of 19, he married Henrietta Elizabeth Williams in 1848 at Pleasant Hill (also known as Antrim Community), Texas. His granddaughter Genoa Gray is also buried at Kyle Cemetery.
Headstone of Genoa Gray, 1877-1882, granddaughter of James Malachi and Henrietta Elizabeth Williams Gray.
Genoa Gray had other siblings who were Wilbert Henry Gray (1887-), Athur C. Strickland (1888-), and Paxton Hemby Gray (1892-).
LINDA, I would love to use your info abot kyle cemeter on my family tree..William Robert Wallace Sr. KYLE And Elizabeth (Bettie) Matilda KNIGHT were myggg aunt and uncle Thanks Mary Ward my email is jacbrax@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteHello, Thanks so much for posting this. I'm Dr. Jeffrey Owens, a history professor at Tyler Junior College. My mother's brother, Jimmy Cleveland Coleman, from Elkhart, told me about finding this cemetery a long time ago when we was a gas line inspector. Elizabeth Matilda Knight & her first husband, Jacob Middleton Gauntt (from Henderson County) are my 3-grs-grandparents, through their daughter Louanna. Jacob died of illness in Arkansas in the Civil War, leaving 3 small children. Elizabeth married Dr. W. R. W. Kyle, and had several Kyle children. Louanna married Richard Bennett and died at age 30 after having several children, including Grover Cleveland Bennett, my grandmother's father, who was named for the first Democratic president elected after the Civil War. jowe@tjc.edu
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ReplyDeleteMy grandmother was Emma Rachel Gray, Daughter of James F. Gray. Married Thomas Grover Rhodes....Would like to talk more about the Gray's...tfrhodes42@aol.com Tom Rhodes