Warren Angus Ferris Cemetery
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Marker Inscription
New York native Warren Angus Ferris (1810 - 1873) spent six years as a trapper and chronicler of the American West before moving to the Republic of Texas in late 1836. As official surveyor for Nacogdoches County he surveyed the Three Forks of the Trinity area and helped set the boundaries for Dallas and other nearby counties. He wrote many articles for early Dallas newspapers. In 1847, upon the death of his son Warren Ferris, Jr., this cemetery was established on the family farm. Five Ferris children are buried in this family plot, as well as Warren Angus and his second wife, Frances Moore (d.1869). Other early Dallas County settlers interred in this cemetery are Benjamin Dye (d. 1852) and his wife Sarah (d. 1879); Wesley Chenault (d. 1886) and two of his wives, Elizabeth (d. 1858) and Lucy Sage (d. 1863). Many other members of the Sage family as well as the Atwood, Bell, Boyette, Chendull, Grace, Herndon, Kirby, Pemberton, Ryan, Tabor, and Tucker families are also buried here. One of the last interments was that of the Rev. r. T. Taylor in 1906. Due to vandalism, his gravestone was the only remaining marker by 1970. It is estimated that the cemetery contains over one hundred graves. (1988) Historic Texas Cemetery
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Warren Angus Ferris spent six years trapping and chronicling the Rocky Mountain fur trade before coming to the Republic of Texas in 1836. As surveyor for Nacogdoches County he mapped the Three Forks of the Trinity and helped fix the boundaries of Dallas and its neighbors. This family cemetery, begun in 1847 on his farm, holds Ferris kin alongside many of the county's earliest settlers.
Why it matters
Ferris embodies the surveyors and frontier chroniclers who literally drew the lines of a new republic, and his cemetery anchors the memory of Dallas County's founding families.
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