Shook Bluff Cemetery

Photos by Donna McKnight Sherrer

Cherokee County, Cemeteries of TX

Submitted by B.Wooddell

Shook Bluff Cemetery is located west of Wells, Texas. Shook Bluff is sometimes referred to as Goodwin Town. Catalogued in 1974.

Chandler, child (unmarked)
Chandler, Billoy 1-7-1896 d. 1-1-1906
Chandler, Lee Anna 1842-1934
Chandler, James E. 8-16-1913 d. 10-17-1967
Chandler, Ida Fay 4-7-1875 d. 7-3-1953 &
Chandler, W.L. 4-7-1864 d. 1-14-1938
Chandler, Lou Vicie 1889-1949
Choate, Cleburn C. 4-7-1931 d. 7-14-1933
Choate, M. Anner 1872-1927
Choate, W.A. 1860-1940
Cocoran, (three unmarked graves)
Cooper, Mrs. Margie 3-18-1931 d. 10-12-1968
Courtney, Mrs. Myrtie 10-1-1895 d. 12-3-1965
Delaney, Mrs. May 1871-1955
Goodwin, Sarah (unmarked) (a midwife) &
Goodwin, (unmarked) (Sarah's husband & two children)
Goodwin, Amasa R. 12-13-1892 d. 10-26-1957 (Pfc Co. D 143 Inf 36 Div.)
Goodwin, Grover C. 10-8-1895 d. 2-9-1970
Goodwin, General Lee 8-25-1894 d. 11-16-1966
Goodwin, infant (unmarked)
Goodwin, Viva Delaney d. about 1922 (16-18 years) (unmarked)
Goodwin, B.Y. (Young) 11-23-1873 d. 8-1-1948 &
Goodwin, Effie 6-18-1874 d. 6-16-1911
Goodwin, Wm. Zacharian 1873-1880
Goodwin, Catherine Rebecka 1853-1880
Hendry, Bill 4-2-1918 d. 10-16-1933 (had a twin brother)
Hendry, Joe 3-24-1888 d. 1-8-1935 (father of Bill)
Hendry, Liddie (unmarked) (murdered)
Hendry, Louie (unmarked) (husband of Liddie)
Luce, (cataloguer was told that there was a row of unmarked early Luce graves)
Mettlen, Hattie 7-25-1908 d. 12-16-1929
Mettlen, Bell 1884-1917 &
Mettlen, Wm. P. 1874-1937
Mettlen, Thomas (unmarked) (still-born)
Mettlen, Luther (unmarked) (died at 14 years of age)
Mettlen, Leroy R. 12-2-1922 d. 12-7-1952
Mettlen, Sadie Mozell 1936-1955
Mettlen, Richard 10-15-1857 (still born)
Mettlen, infant (unmarked)
Pounds, Minnie (unmarked)
Pounds, Hop (unmarked)
Roebuck, Roley 9-19-1854 d. 6-8-1931 &
Roebuck, Lou 11-24-1888 d. 10-17-1947
Toney, Tully Woodrow 7-22-1915 d. 11-19-1918