Oxford Cemetery

Llano Co. Cemeteries of Texas

Submitted by Lewis Westfall

 

OXFORD, TEXAS. Oxford is on State Highway 16 fifteen miles south of Llano in south central Llano County. The area was first settled in the mid-1850s and was home to the Bedford Academy, which received students from throughout the county. A. J. Johnson arrived in 1880 and named the settlement for his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. Johnson had ambitious plans to develop the town and secured the services of Knight Stith to survey a townsite. A post office was established there in 1880 with George M. Wilson as postmaster. After an incident in which some intoxicated young men at a local dance threw a cat into a large pot of coffee, Oxford was sometimes referred to as Cat Town. Though it was at one time a local trade center for the cotton and cattle industries, Oxford declined in the early 1900s and lost its post office by 1924. In 1968 its population was reported as thirty-three, and it continued to be reported at that level well into the 1980s. By the early 1990s no population figures were available for the town.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Tillie Badu Moss Fry, A History of Llano County (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1943). Wilburn Oatman, Llano, Gem of the Hill Country: A History of Llano County (Hereford, Texas: Pioneer, 1970). James B. Heckert-Greene

 

Last Name First Name Birth Death Comments
Allison Elizabeth Dec 15 1825 Aug 11 1911 -
Browning Hope Carolyne Oct 07 1997 Nov 17 2000
Cherry William M. Aug -1 1879 Jan 18 1910 -
Cone James C. Jr Nov 15 1893 Dec 31 1991 h/o Iva
Cone Iva Burleson Aug 17 1903 Jan 10 1947 w/o Iva
Cone Stele - - -
Cone A.R. Aug 25 1824 Jul 01 1908 -
Cone Damon Ross Oct 02 1887 Nov 27 1962 -
Cone James C. Oct -8 1866 Feb 06 1951 -
Cone Mrs Mary A. Dec 30 1867 Mar 25 1942 -
Cone Mrs S.A. May 22 1831 Jan 09 1915 -
Cone Ozrell L. Jul 10 1890 Feb 12 1969 h/o Irma
Cone Irma Ligon Sep 04 1897 Nov 19 1984 w/o Ozrell
Dees Jacob W. May 24 1875 Sep 15 1849 h/o Margaret M.
Dees Margaret M. May 08 1877 Jun 22 1956 w/o Jacob
Dees W. Jerome Sep 10 1893 Mar 06 1967 h/o Iris
Dees Iris Cone May 05 1892 Jan 21 1959 w/o Jerome
Dowling Mr. one date 1930 Oxford Postman
Duff Tom Willie one date 1881 -
Faust Mary Cone May 29 1916 Jan 09 2000 w/o William R.
Faust William R. Mar 09 1918 - -
Garrett Joe T. Apr 05 1897 Mar 29 1977 h/o Lola
Garrett Lola G. Oct 02 1903 Jun 24 1993 w/o Joe T.
Garrett Joe A. 1869 1957 h/o Phebe
Garrett Phebe G. 1871 1947 w/o Joe A.
Gray Arthur Albert Sr May 04 1919 Sep 20 1999 h/o Imogene
Gray Imogene Moss Jul 21 1921 - w/o Arthur
Gray Arthur A. Jr Sep 19 1940 - h/o Joyce Edith
Gray Joyce Edith Nov 13 1940 - w/o A.A. Jr
Gray John Arthur Sep 16 1959 Oct 20 1959 -
Gray Gary Wayne Sep 21 1958 Dec 07 1982 -
Gray George Albert Aug 05 1887 Jan 18 1964
Gray Jeffreye Moore Feb 17 1892 Jan 13 1955
Hargrove Beatrice Walton 1903 1993 -
Hargrove Raymond Charles Nov 06 1932 Mar 29 1917 -
Hargrove Raymond Handy Apr 08 1890 Jul 20 1933 -
Honeycutt Eugene C. May 25 1910 Mar 06 1986 h/o Ruby
Honeycutt Ruby Garrett Feb 17 1914 Sep 05 1982 w/o Eugene
Inman Sumner Carl May 21 1898 Apr 09 1984 h/o Altha
Inman Altha Moore Jan 08 1899 Mar 28 1987 top of stone "Alvira Ratliff Moore"
Minife Lucy R. 1880 1964 -
Moore Arthur Micheal Nov 22 1861 Jan 08 1940 h/o Susannah
Moore Susannah Holland Jul 06 1863 May 10 1940 -
Moss Carl Sep 28 1887 Sep 16 1852 -
Moss Cash May 04 1894 Oct 17 1971 -
Moss Eula Nov 13 1897 Apr 07 1989 -
Moss Loleat Jan 05 1894 Dec 18 1983 -
Moss Charles Tate Dec 28 1845 Oct 17 1916 h/o Sallie
Moss Sallie May 05 1864 Jul 20 1906 w/o Charles Tate
Moss Matthew Hrmon 1919 1995 WWII
Moss Charles Tate, Jr Sep 14 1898 Dec 18 1955
Moss Dale Mar 26 1892 s/o C. T. & Sallie 1 yr 8 mo 18 days
Moss Taylor Sep 08 1917 Jan 28 1918 s/o Cash
Moss Unknown May 15 1883 Apr 21 1891  can't read
Ratliff Elijah Aug 15 1836 Nov 10 1916 h/o Lou
Ratliff Lou J. Dec 19 1848 Nov 23 1920 w/o Elijah
Ricketson Aaron Feb 04 1887 Feb 10 1887
Ricketson Albert 1874 1962 h/o Sannah
Ricketson Sannah 1875 1961 w/o Albert
Ricketson B.F. Dec 18 1830 Jun 30 1909 h/o Mary
Ricketson Mary Jan 29 1834 Mar 16 1913 w/o B. F.
Ricketson Ernest Lee Aug 23 1883 Dec 31 1946 h/o Ida
Ricketson Ida Ellen Jan 06 1886 Nov 12 1958 w/o Ernest
Ricketson G.J. 1843 1901 -
Ricketson H. Apr ?? 1836 Apr 20 1914 -
Ricketson M Jul 12 1840 Feb 28 1918 -
Ricketson Hiram C. Feb 20 1872 Sep 09 1933 h/o Effie   Mason
Ricketson Effie J. Aug 10 1879 Sep 28 1974 w/o Hiram
Ricketson Marl L. 1898 1968 -
Ricketson Thomas Gardner Nov 11 1859 May 06 1922 -
Riley Hiram Frank 1879 1944 -  Mason
Riley James W. 1800 1875 " Citizen of the Republic"
Riley James B. 1878 1953 -
Riley J.C. Apr 09 1831 Oct 28 1908 -
Riley Mrs M.E. Dec 02 1831 Aug 22 1904 -
Riley Sarah E. Sep 20 1959 Jun 18 1942 -
Riley T.J. 1887 1952 -
Riley Thomas D. Dec 31 1857 Sep 08 1921 -
Smathers Mrs E.J. Apr 06 1865 Apr 07 1889 -
Smith John Apr 11 1863 Dec 17 1943 h/o Nancy A.
Smith Nancy A. Feb 19 1854 Jan 30 1932 w/o John Smith
Swenson T.D. Dutch Jun 30 1909 Jun 03 1997 h/o Fae  Llano VFD
Swenson Fae Ricketson May 30 1912 - w/o T.D.
Thomas James Isaac Nov 14 1875 Oct 10 1938 -
Thomas Julia Ann Jun 12 1884 Nov 28 1974 -
Walton Booth Jan 21 1876 Mar 10 1950 h/o Una
Walton Una Oct 31 1881 Apr 19 1963
Walton Effie Inez Mar 28 1905 Nov 21 1908 -
Walton H.A. 1881 1960 h/o Louella
Walton Louella 1877 1961 w/o H.A.
Walton J.H. Aug 13 1855 Feb 16 1889 -
Walton Sue A. Jan 27 1904 Nov 27 1970 -
West Annie Janie May 05 1872 Apr 11 1906 M: J. Thomas West
Willbern Phebe Mar 18 1815 Dec 24 1882 -