McGuire Cemetery
From Huntsville, TX., take Hwy. 19 north to Harmon
Creek turn left on Percy Howard Rd., at the first curve there is a
lane to the left, located on private property. This cemetery is closed
to future burials. Phillip and Kathleen Fitter, association members
and contributors of information, along with numerous other McGuire
relatives found and restored this abandoned cemetery. For more
information on this cemetery contact:
Peggy Goodwin, McGuire Cemetery Association, P. O. Box 4, Lovelady,
TX., 75851
Submitted By Peggy Goodwin: pgoodwin@txucom.net
| Name | birth date | death date | Other |
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| Baisdon, Emily C. | 12-04-1850 | 01-17-1935 | w/o George Riley Baisdon |
| “Come Ye Blessed” (Mother of Etta Chestena Baisdon McGuire) |
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| Baisdon, George Riley | 03-04-1842 | 07-21-1900 | h/o Emily C. |
| “ In my Father’s house are many mansions.”
“Thy virtue and thy worth shall fond rememberance cheer and ease the aching heart that drops the falling tear.” |
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| Barker, Alitia A. | 1816-1818? | 1899 | w/o William Barker |
| (no marker but known to be buried here) | |||
| Barker, Charles H. | 1856 | 12-05-1873 | s/o Wm. & Alitia |
| “Charles sleeps sweetly here” | |||
| Barker, John H. | 02-14-1866 | 05-14-1866 | s/o Wm. & Alitia |
| “Born in Walker Co., Tx.” | |||
| Barker, William | 1808 | 10-21-1865 | h/o Alitia (Humble?) |
| “Born in Walker Co., Tx. A Veteran of
the Mexican War” “Blest are the pure in heart for they shall see God.” (SOLDIER OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS) (Wm.’s wife filed for a Republic of Tx. claim under her husband’s name.) |
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| Barker, William N. | 12-25-1861 | 01-12-1868 | s/o W. N. & S. E. |
| “Born in Walker Co., Tx.” | |||
| Holman, Little Maggie | ? | 07-04-1887 | |
| “Died July 4, 1887” | |||
| Johnson, Clara C. | 12-29-1891 | 04-02-1954 | w/o Elisha A. Johnson |
| (Previous marriage? Webb) | |||
| Johnson, Elisha A. | 08-30-1888 | 10-22-1958 | h/o Clara C. |
| “ Marker missing buried next to Clara C.” | |||
| McGilberry, Dannie | 08-28-1883 | 09-14-1889 | s/o Daniel Spence & Mary D. McGuire McGilberry |
| “The soul is safe in heaven” | |||
| McGilberry, Mary D. (McGuire) | 01-22-1851 | 09-13-1883 | w/o Daniel Spence McGilberry |
| (Daughter of Thomas M. and Elizabeth McGuire) | |||
| McGuire, Beverly B. | 03-05-1843 | 12-25-1867 | s/o Thomas M. & Elizabeth |
| (CSA: 13th Tx. Volunteers, Co. I ) (CSA: 35th Tx. Cavalry, Co. K, Brown’s Reg.) |
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| McGuire, Elizabeth (Skelton) | 05-06-1810 | 08-01-1865 | w/o Thomas M. McGuire |
| (Daughter of John & Rebecca Skelton) | |||
| McGuire, Frances A. | 01-22-1862 | 08-08-1899 | d/o Seaborn & Margaret McGuire |
| McGuire, Ida | 03-11-1870 | 05-08-1878 | d/o Seaborn & Margaret McGuire |
| “A precious one from us has gone” | |||
| McGuire, John B. | 01-16-1865 | 08-31-1868 | s/o Seaborn & Margaret McGuire |
| McGuire, Lelan C. | 04-14-1896 | 02-14-1900 | d/o Joseph J. & E. R. McGuire |
| (Grand-daughter of Seaborn McGuire) | |||
| McGuire, Lola D. | 04-06-1867 | 01-08-1873 | d/o Pleasant H. & Amanda |
| McGuire, Seaborn | 12-28-1828 | 10-04-1889 | h/o Margaret McGuire |
| (s/o Thomas M. McGuire) CSA: 35th Tx. Cavalry, Co. K, Pvt., Brown’s Reg. |
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| McGuire, Thomas M. | 03-27-1806 | 06-10-1881 | h/o Elizabeth Skelton McGuire |
| “In memory of” “Born in Ga. Died in Tx.” CSA: 35th Tx. Cavalry, Co. K, Brown’s Reg. (Mason in Masonic Lodge #19 GLTR 1861) (He was a justice of peace in Elbert and Cobb Co. Ga. In 1850, he was in Cobb Co., Ga., and farmed 1,200 acres of land there. He went to Tx. in the 1850’s and settled in Walker Co., Tx. In 1858, he purchased 304 acres of land on Harmon Creek just north of Huntsville, Tx. and lived there until his death in 1881.) |
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| Sparks, Lillian B. (Baisdon) | 10-20-1879 | 03-18-1900 | w/o D. A. Sparks |
| d/o George R. & Emily Baisdon” “Peaceful by thy silent slumber” “Thou no more will join our home” |
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| Webb, Leo Elmont | 09-07-1919 | 05-02-1943 | |
| “None knew thee but to love thee” (Buried next to Clara Webb Johnson) |
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| Wheat, Steven B. | 08-00-1966 | 07-11-1987 | |
| (Indigent- resident of Good Shepherd Mission in Huntsville, Tx. First buried in the Dean Cemetery and moved to the McGuire Cemetery by order of Walker Co. Judge Frank Robinson. | |||
