TRANSCRIBED & INDEXED BY DUSTON BROOKS 1999
Lynch Cemetery is located 8 miles southeast of Albany near the Ibex Community on Farm to Market Road 601. The cemetery began in the summer of 1875 as the final resting place of J. A. Leflet, a young cowboy who worked for the Lynch family on what was then called Fairview Ranch. Founders of the ranch, John C. Lynch and his wife Fannie, arrived in this part of Shackelford County in the 1860's after coming to nearby Stephens County with Fannie's family, the Peter Gunsolus family. The Lynches soon began accumulating land and cattle, eventually building themselves a large ranching operation. After Mr. Leflet was buried in 1875 on a rise a quarter of a mile from the Lynch home, other cowboys on the ranch who died were also buried there, most now unmarked or unknown. In addition to the ranch cowboys, the cemetery is the burial site of the Lynches' daughter, two granddaughters, Fannie's father and stepmother, and others (many infant children) who resided in the general vicinity of the cemetery. All of the marked graves in the cemetery are listed below.
NAME |
BIRTH |
DEATH |
NOTES |
| Apperson, Maggie A.
Apperson, William Brooks, Infant Brooks, James B. Brooks, Terrell Buckley, Ella Dobbs, Infant Dobbs, O. C. Dobbs, William Gunsolus, Dr. Peter Gunsolus, Susan Ivey, Arthur S. Lee, Willie E. Leflet, W. A. Lynch, Icebenda C. Manning, Fannie Manning, Kate Witty, James J. |
12/14/1886
12/21/1891 2/8/1899 11/13/1834 4/13/1811 ? 5/10/1883 2/4/1857 9/27/1884 3/10/1801 3/10/1886 9/?/1882 7/18/1881 4/29/1842 5/1/1866 11/5/1880 7/3/1882 1845 |
12/23/1891
12/21/1891 3/18/1899 3/28/1879 4/8/1878 2/15/1877 5/10/1883 9/27/1877 7/23/1885 5/23/1886 11/18/1902 11/5/1882 6/3/1883 7/6/1875 8/20/1878 6/13/1881 5/12/1883 8/30/1904 |
Dau. of W. G. & A. F.
Apperson
Son of C. S. & M. A. Apperson Son of Bert & Minnie Brooks Husband of Mary Cobb Brooks Father of James B. Brooks None Son of C. B. & L. Dobbs Aged 20 years 7 months 23 days Son of C. B. & L. Dobbs Aged 85 years None Son of John & Sarah Ivey Son of W. G. & L. V. Lee Born in Shelby Co., Missouri Dau. of J. C. & F. J. Lynch Dau. of E. R. & M. A. Manning Dau. of E. R. & M. A. Manning Husband of Mary Brooks Witty |
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