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Pyle Prairie Cemetery
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Kemp, Kaufman Co Cemeteries of Tx
Submitted by Jo Ann Pipkin Londot
Directions:
Take Hwy 175 east toward Kaufman. Stay on this highway all the way
past Kaufman to Kemp and turn right on Hwy 274. Continue to Hwy 148, turn
right. The Kings Creek Country Club is located at that corner. Stay
on 148 for 4 miles and turn right on FM 4059. Cemetery at the end of the
road.
John Pyle a veteran of the Republic of Texas Army arrived in this area with his family in the 1850s. According to Family Tradition this cemetery was begun in 1854, with the death of Pyle’s son-in-law J. P. McFarland. The community, which grew up in this area, was known as Pyle’s Prairie and the family graveyard eventually became a community cemetery as friends and neighbors were interred here. Family names on the tombstones reflect the pioneer heritage of the area. Descendants of those pioneer families maintain the cemetery.
|
Last
Name |
First
Name |
Birth
|
Death |
Comments |
|
Gause |
Lena
V. |
25
May 1878 |
2
Apr 1931 |
dbl/
w of Olen |
|
Gause |
Olen
B. |
27
Mar 1868 |
17
Apr 1937 |
dbl/ h of Lena V. |
|
Martin |
19
Aug 1843 |
22
Nov 1916 |
dbl
/h of N.J. Father |
|
|
Martin |
10
Apr 1848 |
1
Feb 1916 |
dbl/
w Napolian Mother |
|
|
Martin |
May
1888 |
Oct
1964 |
h
of Belvia Thy Word Is Light |
|
|
Martin |
1
Aug 1891 |
16
May 1956 |
w
of Charlie C Thy Word Is Light |
|
|
Martin
|
30
May 1876 |
28
Jan 1957 |
dbl / h of Mattie E. |
|
|
Martin |
16
Dec. 1879 |
6
Feb. 1946 |
dbl/ w
of James E |
|
|
Pyle |
1836 |
1920 |
|
|
|
Pyle |
13
Mar 1868 |
14
Jan 1908 |
Woodmen
of the World |
|
|
Pyle |
1871 |
1936 |
|
|
|
Pyle |
23
Aug 1836 |
23
Mar 1920 |
PVT
13 TEX CAV BRIC TRINITY
GUARDS MILITA |
|
|
Yielding |
Josephine |
1867 |
1953 |
In
God We Trust |
