Handley Cemetery
Fort Worth, Tarrant Co, Cemeteries of TX
Photos by Laura Perkins
It is located on Meadowbrook Drive in Fort Worth, right next to the TXU power plant. It is not in very good shape, and it was very hard to get to some of the graves so the photos are not always good.
Historical Marker
Handley Cemetery
This Burial Ground originally served the pioneer settlers of the Handley Communtiy, which developed here soon, after the Texas and Pacific Railroad built A Line to the Area in 1876. The earliest marked grave is that of Jane E. Thomas (1832-1878) A Church Building Constructed on Adjacent Land in 1882, was located here for 28 years. Severzl Early residents buried at this site, including civil war veteran Maj. James M. Handley (d 1906). for whom the town was named. were later reinterred in the nearby Rose Hill Cemetery. The last burial here was in 1967.
Last Name | First Name | Birth | Death | Comments |
Fletcher | Polly Caroline Reeves | Dec 30 1848 | Feb 11 1886 | d/o Osborn & Rebecca |
Reeves | Rebecca Osborne | Apr 10 1812 | Mar 04 1898 | wife of Rev. O. Reeves |
Reeves | Rev. O. | Dec 29 1809 | Apr 08 1892 | f/o Jesse David Reeves (Isham Cem) from Gordon County, GA info by LP(& Zane) |
Reves | G.(eorge) F (ranklin). | (Oct 17) 1831 | 1886 | h/o E. C. Reves |
Reves | E.C(aroline Brewer) | 1836 | 1908 | w/o G. F. s/o Osborn & Rebecca Reeves |