BEDFORD OR SMITH CEMETERY

6 miles north of the Corinth cemetery on the country road 154. The cemetery was very difficult to find as there is no sign and trees have grown up all around it. There is a mailbox that says S. A. Davis if you park your car and go east you will find the cemetery. Some of the graves are marked with old funeral home markers.


Joseph R. CARLISLE 1866-1957

Zora M. CARLISLE 1878-1965

Lenard CARLISLE 1905-1927

Reighnie CARLISLE 1908-1927
Infant daughter of J.R. & Z. M. CARLISLE July 17, 1915 - July 30, 1915

Curtis D. JOHNSON, JR. January 31, 1917-February 17, 1917

Frances Maurine JOHNSON April 1, 1919-April 2, 1919

J.D. SILLIVENT September 27, 1846-Feruary 16, 1925

W.H. JONES June 9, 1892-February 16, 1925

Little Tom SMITH October 16, 1892-March 3, 1897
Son of Wat & Lizzie SMITH

Eula Mae HIBBERT August 3, 1925

George ARCHER July 21, 1856-May 22, 1915

Mary O. SMITH (Mother) July 13, 1847-December 18, 1920

B.D. SMITH (Father) April 7, 1849-February 28, 1937

Mary E. BENSON (Mother) December 26, 1870-June 17, 1917

William S. BENSON (Father) February 22, 1858-January 13, 1927

Wilson SMITH April 4, 1918-February 25, 1919

The following data on those buried at this cemetery was obtained from a letter written February 27, 1973 by Homer SMITH, son of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Walter SMITH, to Mrs. Sue BAKKER, of Bakker Funeral Home in Eastland, Texas
Robert Richard son of B.D. & Mary 0. SMITH
Mrs. J. T. OWENS died August 19, 1932
Mr. J. D. SULLIVAN (THERE IS A MARKER FOR J. D. SILLIVENT)
Joseph HICKERSON

At the Eastland County Courthouse, I found Reighnie CARLISLE, daughter of James Robert & Zora Myrtle Johnson CARLISLE died June 5, 1920, Book 3, page 13.
Leonard Otis CARLISLE was in Book 3, page 56. He died of typhoid fever on July 26, 1927. Wippern of Cisco was the undertaker. A son was also listed as dying June 2, 1917 but we did not this marker. The infant daughter was Juanita on the death certificate.
James Robert & Zora Myrtle JOHNSON have a write up in the Eastland History Book on page 100. Zora was born August 8, 1878 near Dublin, Texas and died December 27, 1965 in Eastland. Robert was born in Atlanta, Georgia and married in 1897.

Submitted by Wanda Skinner

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July 22, 2020