Details for The Denny Cemetery

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5143001205

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Marker Number 1205
Atlas Number 5143001205
Marker Title The Denny Cemetery
Index Entry Denny Cemetery
Address US 377
City Bluff Dale
County Erath
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 593029
UTM Northing 3580296
Subject Codes cemetery
Marker Year 1983
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location From Bluff Dale, 0.7 mi. E on US 377, S side opposite CR 148. Cemetery is about a mile north on private property. Marker reported damaged Jan. 2020.
Private Property No
Marker Condition Damaged
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Text (1 mile north) Alfred W. Denny (d. 1877) came to Texas in 1853, settling first in Clarksville, and then moving to Weatherford in 1860. During the Civil War (1861-65) Denny served in a Ranger unit stationed at Stephenville that guarded Texas' western frontier. In 1867 he bought 320 acres, which included the site where he was later interred. There are 17 known gravesites of family members in the Denny Cemetery, including Denny's wife Mary Elizabeth and infant grandson Walter Calloway Baldwin, who was killed by a horse in 1879. The burial ground was restored in 1982. (1983)

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