Lone Cottonwood Cemetery
JOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS COPIED BY Rev. & Mrs. GORDON MILTENBERGER
CLEBURNE ,TEXAS
VOL. I
PRESENTED TO THIS LIBRARY BY THE JOHNSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE
1971
Transcribed by GARY & LISA MOSELEY 1999.
EXPLANATORY REMARKS
1 Numbers at the extreme right side of the page are indicators of enclosures. Stones in a common enclosure will have the same number, regardless of surname.
2. The use of the term "sic" has been avoided. Spellings of names are as found. Abbreviations of names are not used unless as on the stones.
3. Verses were not copied; references to relationship were copied.
4. Stone cutters referred to on monuments:
1. Jno. A. Bergin & Son, Fort Worth, Texas (p. 35)
2. I. Holmes, Cleburne, Texas (p. 1, 7)
3. Rosebrough Monument Co., St. Louis, Missouri
4. J. B. Anderson & Sons, Cleburne, Texas (Bethesda Cemetery)
copied November 1967
BOWEN, Jarrett, son of S. H. and G. E. Bowen, born 20 February 1871 died 9 May 1891 BOWEN, Mary E., born 14 March 1880 died 27 August 1889
BOWEN, Rebecca J. born 26 March 1873 died 4 March 1888
FORGASON, D. A. born 1 November 1835 died 18 June 1905 "husband, ...father" FORGASON, John F. son of D.A. and S.A. Forgason born 7 March 1879 died 22 October 1895
McELROY, Jeff D. born 26 July 1861 died 4 May 1940 Dad
Marnevia D. born 5 February 1865 died 15 March 1930 Mother
QUEEN, Thomas N. born 20 January 1858 died 14 May 1897
RASH, Samuel A. born 15 December 1862 died 13 September 1889
(enclosed in iron fence)
TERRELL, J. W. born 11 March 1836 died 23 December 1888
TERRELL, M. E. born 18 March 1838 died 16 February 1906
there are numerous fieldstones as well as an extended pile of stones along the edge of the cemetery away from the road the cemetery is unkept.
copied January, 1969