Join us at Johnson Station Cemetery in Arlington, TX on Wednesday June 19th, 2024!
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Johnson Station Cemetery
1129 West Mayfield Rd. Arlington, TX 76015
6/19/2024 9am-3pm

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“This year marks the 175th anniversary of Tarrant County (Texas). Johnson Station (which is now part of Arlington), was one of the first settlements in Tarrant County established in the 1840’s initially by Sam Houston's request for Trading Post No. 1 at Marrow Bone Spring, soon afterward developing into a Ranger Station, and Johnson Station Cemetery is one of the earliest burial sites in the area. The oldest marked grave is that of Elizabeth Robinson, who died on November 15, 1863, but there are a number of unmarked graves which may date to an earlier time period. A variety of gravestone styles are found here, marking the final resting places of settlers, veterans of various wars, and charter members of an early masonic lodge and church formerly on the site, where the church bell remains posted.

Members of the Lucretia Council Cochran Chapter, DAR, will be researching, surveying and mapping out all graves of veterans, and eventually all of the historic area of the cemetery, as well as cleaning and repairing grave markers. Plans are underway to include Cemetery Committee members of the Tarrant County Historical Commission and other interested groups in this restoration project."

*info above is provided by our local event co-host Floreen Henry & Stacy Luecker with the Tarrant County Historical Commission and images below are provided by Kristina Rumans with Lucretia Council Cochran Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution*