Submitted by Gary & Wanda Marsh and Margie & Dakota
Cottonwood Community is located 9 miles Northwest of Cross Plains on FM 880.
It's a small farming & ranching community of about 90 people. It has two active
churches, Baptist & Church of Christ. Community Center is the Old School House.
My husband & I have taken pictures of each headstone.
Adams, Eva P. 8-31-1921 - 2-04-1951
Adams, James V. 5-06-1917 - 1-29-1956
Adams, James Vernon
Texas PVT AC5 REPL Depot
World War II
5-6-1917 - 1-29-1956
Archer, Douglas M., 1945-1992
Archer, Judy Lynn 1949-
married - 3-21-1968
Archer, Franklin Earl 8-22-1890 - 10-16-1966
Archer, Maggie Jewell 1-18-1911 - 12-27-1996
Archer, Raymond Dan 6-9-1943 - 7-7-1995
Arvin, Beulah 11-24-1880 - 12-05-1988
Arvin, Marjorie A. 05-27-1880 - 09-26-1976
Arvin, Ferrell Coats
Texas TEC 8 CO C 138 ENGR C BN
World War II
03-03-1905 - 5-10-1963
Bennett, Gayna Ann - 3-18-1963- 2-14-1967
Bennett, Levi E.
Texas PVT US Army
World War II
5-22-1897 - 5-12-1966
Bennett, Levi E. 5-22-1897 - 5-12-1966
Bennett, Eva Eula 10-1-1908 - 9-21-1994
Marriage 5-23-1925
Bennett, Marjorie C. 12-28-1927 - 2-20-1956
Bishop, Annie M. 10-26-1891 - 6-13-1984
Blanton, James E. 7-9-1919 - 8-31-1981
CPL US ARMY
Blanton, Reva C. 5-1-1927 - 10-9-1984
Bowen, Cora M. 1880 - 1958
Bowen, Q. Jess 1874 - 1959
Breeding, Arlie Lee 10-5-1914 - 11-20-1990
Breeding, Ora Clark 4-8-1921
Brown, Wayne 1931 - 2001
Bush, Ed 1882 - 1963
Bush, Ida 1882 - 1963
Bush, Lester Ree 1904 - 2001
Bush, Melvin Dean 8-24-1935 - 1-29-1999
US Air Force Vietnam
Bush, Melvin D. 8-24-1935 - 1-29-1999
Calhoun, Jeanie 9-1-1973 - 3-13-1990
Casey, U Francis - 1900 - 1960
Casey, Jessie M. - 1906 -
Caudle, Emmett Dale
SGT US Army World War II
1926 - 1986
Caudle, Emmett Dale 11-23-1926 - 7-7-1986
Caudle, Barbara Helen 07-17-1918 -
Chalk, Donald S. 9-12-1913 - 4-22-1988
Chalk, Lois M. 4-8-1925 -
Chalk, Donald S.
TEC 5 US Army World War II
09-12-1913 - 4-22-1988
Purple Heart
Champion, Calvin T. 1892 - 1971
Champion, Alice K. 1900 - 1981
married 8-17-1919
Champion, Glenn "Champ" 2-5-1934 - 8-14-1998
Chamption, Ethel 3-15-1938
Married 11-28-1958
Champion, Robert Lee 7-23-1924
Champion, Murl Barnett 7-23-1930 - 10-19-1998
married 4-2-1950
Champion, William F. 1-21-1913 - 3-8-1970
Champion, Pauline 1-26-1920 - 6-5-2001
Married 1-26-1957
Champion, William F.
Texas S Sgt 400 8 AST Unit AAF
World War II
1-21-1913 - 3-8-1970
Childers, Lillie M. 6-13-1901 - 4-15-1981
Childers, Custer Blanton 6-11-1913 - 2-11-1997
Childers, Lillie Wilcoxen 6-25-1917 - 8-19-1999
Childress, Dan L. 12-16-1914 - 7-20-2000
Childress, Nancy J. 5-20-1918 - 5-12-1997
Christensen, David CG. 11-06-1935 - 5-8-1962
Clark, Alice L. 12-30-1929
Clark, Jesse C. 8-31-1916 - 1-13-1991
Married 8-13-1951
Clark, Jesse C.
US Navy World War II
8-13-1916 - 1-13-1991
Clark, James P. 1913 - 1993
Clark, Nettie B. 1914 - 1998
Married 8-3-1951
Clark, Naoma Ethel 2-9-1895 - 12-11-1982
Clark, Ernest M. 1899 - 1954
Clark, Myrtle M. 1904 - 1945
Coats, John H. 7-24-1874 - 5-7-1961
Coats, Carrie E. 3-16-1879 - 2-3-1955
Coats, Leonard 6-12-1911 - 9-19-2000
Coats, Loe D. 2-28-1921 - 4-08-1990
Coats, Charles W. Jr. 3-10-1922 - 6-12-1998
Coats, Charles Wesley
Texas
CPL CO C 53 Ammo TN CAC
World War II
12-23-1892 - 10-26-1962
Coats, Charles Weley III 11-12-1954 - 11-14-1954
Coffey, James F. 1871 - 1950
Coffey, Lula 1878 - 1968
Coffey, Durward Everett 3-1-1937 - 2-19-1971
Coffey, Floyd 4-30-1901 - 8-4-1982
Coffey, Mae 11-04-1900 - 7-30-1987
Coffey, Jimmy Glenn
A2C US Air Force
3-21-1932 - 5-2-1992
Coffey, Norman V. 9-9-1911 - 7-13-1974
Coffey, Dixie F. 5-9-1911 - 4-04-1999
Cowan, Doyle W. 5-1-1922 - 4-18-1998
Cowan, Clara M. 7-10-1920 - 8-9-1995
married 6-29-1942
Cowan, Doyle Wayne
51 US Navy
World War II
5-1-1922 - 4-18-1998
Silver Star
Crawley. John I. 10-16-1900 - 6-16-1988
Crawley, Nora Bell 9-1-1905 - 7-18-1978
Married 5-21-1924
Davidson, Johnnie 12-31-1901 - 2-2-1968
Davidson, Stella 3-7-1908 -
Davidson, Lynn - Carlton 9-22-1935 - 11-8-1984
Davidson, Tommy Pate 8-8-1938 - 5-23-1962
Deford, Claude R. 12-26-1902 - 1-16-1983
Deford, Mattie M. 4-14-1907 - 9-29-1983
Married 7-1-1927
Dickey, Paul Lee 2-17-1935 - 6-15-1956
Duncan, Doris, Infant Daughter of Lon and Norene Duncan 5-16-1946
Duncan, E.D. 1-13-1888 - 2-2-1967
Duncan, Lisa Dawn 1973 Daughter of Elmer & Barbara Reynols Duncan
Duncan, Lon O.
PFC US Army
World War II
7-5-1916 - 10-27-1994
Dunn, S.R. (Ronald) 4-27-1911 - 12-1-1966
Dunn, Myrtle Ann 1-02-1916 -
Eckles, Danny Keith 1946 - 1948
Edwards, Roy Graden 7-10-1914 - 2-9-1988
Edwards, Violet Leola Wilcoxen 3-9-1920 -
Ellis, Herbert R. 11-18-1919 - 6-3-1998
Ellis, Juanita 7-13-1924
Ellis, Mary P.
Eudaley, Edward F. 9-22-1880 - 10-1-1956
Eudaley, Robert William 10-3-1903 - 1-27-1995
Eudaley, Mary Yolanda 7-10-1917 -
Married 8-10-1935
Eudaley, John Clint
PFC US Army
World War II
1-2-1907 - 11-29-1988
Flowers, Ed 1891 - 1982
Ford, Mildred L. 4-13-1908 - 1-25-1999
Fulton, Virgil L. 12-3-1876 - 9-11-1967
Fulton, Lena B. (Ayres) 5-26-1883 - 4-5-1961
Grafford, J.S. 1867 - 19__
Grafford, Mary C. 1871 - 19__
George, Ronnie Everette 10-18-1950 - 7-18-1994
Gill, William Ace 2-22-1898 - 3-25-1971
Gill, Verne V. 4-19-1903 - 3-17-1988
Married 9-16-1922
Gilleland, Rev. Wm B. 1884 - 1949
Gilleland, Frances C. 1888 - 1952
Goble, Cecil I. 7-12-1914 - 3-23-1998
Goble, L. Delilah Wilcoxen 5-20-1923 -
Married 4-26-1939
Green, Talmadge W. 8-29-1893 - 5-21-1977
Green, Thelma C. 5-18-1911 - 7-12-2001
Griffin, Homer T. 10-29-1902 -
Griffin, Maggie M. 5-10-1910 - 4-26-1996
Married 12-21-1933
Hargrove, Alvin L. 7-16-1915 - 2-28-2001
Hargrove, B.R. Jr. 4-5-1917 - 5-28-1996
Hargrove, Gladys Glenn 6-11-1932 - 4-23-1980
Hargrove, D.C.
S 5GT US Army
World War II
11-14-1917 - 3-29-1989
Purple Heart
Hargrove, Robert L. 4-17-1971 - 2-6-1994
Hargrove, Melvin C. 9-5-1913 - 7-1-1984
Hargrove, Martha E. 1-5-1916 - 4-15-1994
Married 5-19-1934
Hargrove, Dave C. 12-11-1882 - 5-20-1965
Hargrove, Bulah 2-14-1892 - 9-3-1980
Hargrove, D.C. 11-14-1917 - 3-29-1989
Hargrove, B. Lois 3-7-1917 -
Married 4-3-1947
Hargrove, Michael Vernon 9-4-1951 - 11-30-1992
Heath, Harvey Carl 7-24-1913 - 11-22-1985
Heath, Alice Mae Ford 7-7-1925 -
Higdon, Alex L. 3-21-1904 - 9-3-1978
Higdon, Oma E. 4-7-1905 - 1-18-1984
Higdon, Robert W. 5-25-1928 - 5-15-1989
Higgins, Zona A. 8-12-1893 - 3-25-1976
Hilburn, Homer D. 11-24-1940 - 7-4-2000
Hilburn, Peggy J. Shults 1-5-1943 -
Married 10-18-1966
Holley, Alma (Dutch) 6-25-1900 - 1-29-1991
Holley, Frances (Frankie) W. 1-4-1927 - 7-27-1991
Holley, Truett H. 5-1-1924 - 12-3-1972
Holley, Wendell B. (Bubba) 1-2-1952 - 12-3-1972
Horn, Leo L. 7-3-1938 - 12-1-1984
Horn, Jame U. 4-10-1948 -
Horn, Robert D.
SC3 US Navy
World War II
1927 - 1977
Horn, Robert 8-7-1926 - 8-4-1977
Houston, Christene 5-17-1921 - 4-1-1984
Howard, James T. 1903 1972
Howard, Georgia M. 1906 - 1989
Howland, Cora 9-7-1890 - 4-30-1997
Jones, Mary E. 1896 - 1980
Jones, Buddie B. 1886 - 1947
Jones, Robert G. 1862 - 1947
Jones, Nancy J. 1865 - 1959
Jones, - Wilda Jean 6-6-1928 - 2-11-1991
Jordan, Roy
Jordan, Mable
Children of Mable & Roy P.
Roxa Lee Jordan
Claire Bell Jordan
Marjorie Christine Jordan
Joy, Claude C. 4-5-1900 - 2-20-1985
Joy, Ruth N. 12-19-1909 - 11-11-1994
Joy, O.B. 1-31-1914 - 5-9-1992
Joy, Olga 8-7-1915 -
Married 12-16-1939
Joy, Robert Fielding, Jr.
PFC US Army
World War II
11-19-1923 - 5-7-1997
Joy, Robert Fielding Sr. 11-26-1893 - 6-18-1976
Joy, Lois 1-27-1896 - 3-14-1985
Kelly, Fred A.
US Navy
World War II
4-9-1915 - 9-21-1996
Kelly, Dorothy Flint 12-21-1924 - 11-27-1996
Kelly, Fred Arvin 4-9-1916 - 9-21-1996
Kelly, Young H. 1899 - 1974
Kelly, Susie G. 1900 - 1965
Kelly, Marshall J. 7-23-1903 - 5-4-1986
Kelly, Bertha A. 10-4-1908 - 8-16-1990
Married 10-15-1924
Kinyon, Paula Elizabeth
(Droopy Drawers) 3-21-1975 - 8-28-1982
Landon, F.W. (Frank) 9-20-1919
Landon, Nellie Mae Lovell 2-25-1919 - 9-7-1993
Married 1-24-1947
Lawson, Claude Garland
Col US Army Air Corps
World War II
10-26-1924 - 12-20-1987
Lemonds, Roy W.
PFC US Army
World War II
7-11-1925 - 8-26-1997
Lemond, Roy W. 7-11-1925 - 8-26-1992
Lemond, Mable Claire (Fulton) 8-18-1902 - 4-6-1994
Lovell, Albert C. 2-27-1921 -
Lovell, Dorothy L. 1-28-1925 -
Maddox, Rufus A. 1886 - 1966
Maddox, Laura G. 1883 - 1961
Matthiessen, L. Pauline 10-18-1919 - 12-20-1993
McBride, Charles R. 5-19-1922 - 1972
McGowen, Darlene R. (Hargrove) 10-24-1948 - 1-8-1972
McGee, Charles A. 1888 - 1968
McGee, Rachel E. 1894 - 1992
McKeehan, Jim E. 3-3-1901 - 4-2-1974
McKeehan, Maggie Bell 4-17-1922 -
Married 8-2-1943
McKeehan, Malcom L. 1932 - 1954
McLellan, L.B. 2-3-1914 - 9-24-1993
McLellan, Gladys F. Booth 7-14-1913 - 7-25-1992
Married 10-27-1936
McWilliams, Maude 1875 - 1951
McWilliams, W.M. 1873 - 1962
Mitchell, Pender 11-16-1909 - 11-12-1987
Mitchell, Gladys 8-6-1913 - 5-6-1988
Moon, Christopher Lee 8-16-1970 - 5-18-1998
Moore, Blanche 2-7-1907 - 2-23-1998
Moore, Burnice A. 6-20-1906 - 9-5-1984
Moore, W.F. (Dub) 6-25-1926 -
Moore, Patricia Deford 11-26-1929 -
Married 2-6-1952
Moore, Mrs. Sam A. (Frances) 1874 - 1956
Moore, Sam A. 1874 - 1950
Murphy, R.L. 5-26-1911 - 5-20-1999
Murphy, Mary Eula 5-28-1915 - 10-25-1998
Married 11-14-1932
Newman, Billy Dean
BT2 US Navy
1-5-1937 - 1-27-1986
Nickerson, Willie Bufford 2-20-1936 - 7-31-1999
Nickerson, Nadine Weaver 10-27-1934 -
Married 7-1-1954
Parents of Kathy June, Willie B. Jr., Connie Hean, Dena Jo and Myrl Glynn
Nordyke, Theodore R.
Texas
PVT US Army
World War II
6-4-1903 - 4-24-1966
Nordyke, John 1882 - 1952
Off, Gertrude M. 11-22-1901 - 11-11-1986
Off, Roger E.
US Army World War II
12-23-1925 - 6-16-1995
Parker, Tinie B. 1886 - 1960
Payne, Albert J. 1-12-1883 - 9-18-1948
Payne, Minnie E. 5-21-1893 - 9-28-1971
Peevy, Robert (Sub) 8-31-1899 - 1-21-1996
Peevy, Thelma (Champion) 12-13-1901 - 3-11-1994
Price, Emmett M. 3-30-1913 - 11-03-1984
Price, Lorene F. 10-3-1919 - 5-21-1990
Married 10-5-1937
Price, Westly Wayne 2-15-1941 - 3-13-1979
Purvis, Rosa B. 9-10-1882 - 5-5-1968
Purvis, George M. 10-11-1872 - 5-4-1948
Ramey, Grady W. 3-3-1924
Ramey, Dorothy M. 10-11-1924
Respess, Beulah & Hazel
Respess, Ford Walker
Texas
S2 USNRF
World War I
8-10-1897 - 10-18-1954
Respess, Obera & Walker
Robinson, William T. 9-2-1907 - 2-25-1980
Robinson, Mabel E. 5-8-1911 - 2-6-1997
Robinson, Martha L. 1-18-1942
Robinson, Vivian 8-26-1936
Robinson, William Jasper 7-3-1954 - 12-3-1978
Robinson, Wyatt W. 12-19-1900 - 12-25-1968
Sandifer, Ormond O. 12-7-1904 - 5-31-1974
Sandifer, Cornelia W. 10-12-1905 - 11-24-1982
Sandifer, Ormond O.
PFC US Marine Corps
12-7-1901 - 5-31-1974
Shaw, Drucie Bell 1908 - 1953
Shelton, Elbert E. 7-18-1898 - 12-20-1959
Shelton, Lillian 4-13-1899 -
Shirley, James Boyd 1-19-1915 -
Shirley, Myerl Forbes 10-31-1916 - 9-11-1983
Married 6-5-1938
Simpson, Turner 3-10-1914 - 4-24-1999
Simpson, Ellen F. 6-12-1914 -
Smith, Anna 1956 - 1999
Smith, Mary Ayres 1885 - 1964
Sparks, Florence Coppinger 10-6-1896 - 3-14-1986
Sparks, Jesse M. 1-18-1887 - 5-13-1972
Sparks, J.M. Jr. 1925 - 1974
Spencer, R. Warren 10-12-1913
Spencer, Beulah Irene Clifton 3-19-1916 - 2-22-1973
Sproles, Grady Ray 1-21-1920 - 6-27-1985
Sproles, Bonnie Lee Duncan 5-28-1924 - 9-11-1985
Married 11-21-1940
Stansbury, William M. 8-23-1915 - 10-6-1992
Stansbury, Mildred L. 11-19-1919 - 9-4-1992
Strahan, Dr. Bruce B. 8-24-1920
Strahan, Miriam Stanford 2-18-1924
Married 7-16-1943
Strahan, J. Howard 1882 - 1976
Strahan, Emma Belle 1890 - 1981
Strahan, Jim H. 9-14-1916
Strahan, Enid G. 12-16-1920 - 8-4-1997
Strahan, Ed (Bud) 3-27-1899 - 1978
Strahan, Seth B.
Texas
PVT 109 MIL Police 34 DIV
3-13-1889 - 2-25-1945
Strahan, Kate 5-2-1901 - 3-31-1996
Buried in Pioneer Cemetery
Strahan, T. Arden 9-27-1924 - 5-27-2001
Strahan, Lola F. 8-10-1928
Married 3-9-1947
Stroud, Isla Bartley 8-15-1920
Stroud, Xana L.
T SGT US Army
World War II
4-3-1917 - 5-11-1992
Stround, Xana Lee 4-3-1917 - 5-11-1992
Sudderth, Leeland Irvin 6-19-1892 - 7-10-1955
Sudderth, Lou Ella 1-13-1893 - 11-23-1992
Sumners, Roy P. 6-7-1927 - 4-4-1978
Sumners, Viola C. 2-11-1927
Thomas, C.V. (Doc) 6-22-1907 - 7-13-1989
Thomas, Fannie Mae 5-28-1931
Thomas, Houston 1864 - 1959
Thomas, Miltie 1869 - 1951
Thomas, Mary 1-16-1905 - 2-17-2001
Thomas, Elmer Lee 4-16-1900 - 8-11-1943
Thompson, Richard 3-25-1890 - 8-3-1983
Thompson, Nellie 9-3-1890 - 5-2-1983
Thompson, R. Gloster 1-5-1919 - 3-15-1981
Thompson, Dorothy N. 12-15-1921
Thompson, Richard G.
Lt Col US Air Force
WWII - Korea - Vietnam
1-5-1919 - 3-15-1981
Varner, Harry S. 10-17-1873 - 11-9-1959
Varner, Martha Eva 2-5-1876 - 5-20-1965
Varner, Walter
Texas
Sgt US Army
World War II
9-12-1900 - 1-1-1969
Varner, Will 1882 - 1953
Varner, Sally - 1889 - 1961
Walsh, Billy Charles 11-8-1944 - 11-26-1975
Ware, Erman B.
PVT US Army
World War II
10-21-1926 - 9-14-1993
Weaver, Carl H. 10-12-1929 - 7-19-1947
Weaver, Eva Mae 9-15-1906 - 12-9-1948
Weaver, Erby E. 2-22-1893 - 4-13-1972
Webb, William Carroll - 8-16-1901 - 3-30-1980
Webster, Iva Nell 9-20-1925 - 12-30-1999
Webster, Burnice E. 12-10-1916 - 5-1-1997
Whatley, Margaret E. 6-17-1876 - 3-6-1966
Wheeler, Bertha Sarah 1-4-1906 - 4-10-1996
Whitehead, Bryan Lee 1-6-1960 - 4-11-1991
Sons: Joshua, Jack, Ruben, Aaron
Whitehead, S.G. (Jack) 6-22-1907 - 11-25-1977
Whitehead, Frances E. 12-24-1906 - 3-8-1990
Married 11-23-1928
Whitehorn, Lois R. 1892 - 1983
Whitehorn, Henry B. 1883 - 1958
Whitehorn, Charley W.
Texas
CPL 397 AAA AW BN CAC
World War II
7-4-1917 - 3-22-1963
Whitehorn, Rheba 9-3-1915 - 4-12-1985
Wilcoxen, Calvin M. 10-23-1885 - 7-3-1963
Wilcoxen, Nancy L. 1-31-1895 - 11-27-1957
Wilcoxen, Clarence 8-28-1909 - 12-21-1985
Wilcoxen, Manuel Parrish 11-24-1888 - 1-19-1972
Wilcoxen, Cora Belle 7-4-1888 - 10-23-1969
Married 8-6-1905
Wilcoxen, Harvey C. 5-26-1907 - 5-27-1979
Wilcoxen, William T. 2-22-1897 - 12-14-1972
Wilcoxen, Napoleon Gilbert 11-2-1898 - 11-16-1976
Wilcoxen, Jessie Leola 10-14-1899 - 6-7-1994
Williams, W.M. (Mac) 1873 - 1962
Williams, Maud - 1875 - 1951
Williams, Corine W. 1-26-1902 - 6-23-1978
Wilson, Frank Vernon 1-21-1900 - 3-4-1972
Wilson, Alpha Leota 5-4-1906 - 2-10-2000
Winslett, Davis H. 1920
Winslett, Jimmie Lee 1915 - 1973
Woody, Lola Jean Parks 4-16-1947 - 8-20-1986
Son: Dwayne Duncan
Woody, Ettie Jewel 9-4-1897 - 2-22-1985
Woody, Thomas Y. (Ty) 9-4-1882 - 6-8-1976
Married 12-21-1916
Wyatt, T.B. 12-5-1882 - 11-4-1969
Wyatt, Mina M. 12-13-1896 - 5-3-1963
Young, Media 1878 - 1948