Graham-Argyle Cemetery
Argyle, Denton County, Texas
Marker Inscription
This burial ground served the farming community of Graham which grew up here after the Civil War. First known interment was that of an infant, George Isbell, on December 10, 1865. An adjacent structure housed a school and Graham Baptist Church. After 1881, most of the settlers moved to the nearby town of Argyle on the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The school and church were moved in 1887 after their meeting place burned. In 1888 this property was deeded for cemetery use by C. N. Jarrell. In 1974 volunteers began restoration of the plot, which has about 238 marked graves. (1976)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
This burial ground served the farming community of Graham that grew here after the Civil War, its first known grave that of the infant George Isbell in December 1865. A nearby structure housed both a school and Graham Baptist Church. When settlers shifted to Argyle on the Texas and Pacific Railroad after 1881, the school and church followed, and the land was formally deeded for cemetery use in 1888; volunteers began restoring its roughly 238 graves in 1974.
Why it matters
The cemetery marks the rise and relocation of a Reconstruction-era North Texas farm settlement drawn away by the coming of the railroad.
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Related people
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