Morgan Hood Survey Pioneer Cemetery
Grapevine, Tarrant County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Originally part of the Morgan Hood Survey, this small cemetery (75 ft. SE) has been abandoned for over a century. Its one visible grave is marked with portions of a sandstone burial cairn, a common method of marking graves in this area in the 1850s-1870s. The subject of speculation since no written records remain, the graves may be those of members of the Peters Colony, early pioneers who entered the Grapevine area in 1844. Although nearly all traces of the cemetery are gone, it serves as a reminder of Tarrant County's early days of settlement. (1983)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
This small, long-abandoned burial ground holds a single visible grave marked by the remains of a sandstone cairn, a common way of marking graves in the region between the 1850s and 1870s. With no written records surviving, its dead may have been members of the Peters Colony, pioneers who first entered the Grapevine area in 1844. Nearly erased by time, the site is one of the last traces of Tarrant County's founding generation.
Why it matters
Forgotten pioneer graves like these are the fragile physical memory of the earliest Anglo settlement of North Texas, easily lost without deliberate remembrance.
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