OLD WHITEFLAT CEMETERY, Motley Co. Cemeteries of TX, G.B. Mayfield

Location is 8 miles north of Matador on Texas 70. Turn west and on FM # 2009 for 1 mile . Continue west on Co. Rd. 124.Continue west to the pasture gate and turn south west and go past the fuel tanks. The cemetery is inside the pasture fence and part outside.. To go inside the gate and drive down the road inside the pasture call a member of the Horner Lake Association and they will meet you at the locked gate.

This was the Echols Ranch and later called the Frank Irwing Ranch. It’s owned by the D. M. Cogdell Estate . and known now as the Horner Lake Association. In the 1960s this cemetery was neat and had as many as 10 to 12 graves. The stones have been covered with weeds and grass and dirt has blown in. In an article written by Louise Harper in the Plainview Daily Herald in July 2001 she states the former ranch foreman’s wife said at one time there were 21 graves.

Also on a hill northwest of the lake is a grave marked with rocks in the shape of a big cross. There is no known history. It was presumable here before the Echols settled on the land.

Garus	Ida	Feb 21, 1894	Oct 12, 1897	Dau. Of Ella White
Kimbell	B.D.	Feb 28, 1809	Jan 18, 1894	Stone was moved to Whiteflat Cem .Grandfather of Guy Kimbell
Martin	No dates		No names	Children of I.V. Martin
Meador	Ella Grace	1869	June 8, 1894	Wife of Bob Grandmother of W.K. & R.A. Birchfield No stone
Meador	Infant	June 8, 1894	June 8, 1894	Buried with Ella. This grave is inside the pasture.
Powers	J.C.	Aug 17, 1817	Sept 24,1896	Minister of Gospel
Smith	Infant	No dates		Bill Smith’s child
White	Girl	No dates	Age 10 or 12	No stone