MAXDALE CEMETERY, 1863 - 1989, Bell County, TX =============================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. 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This book is in all area libraries, at Killeen, Belton, and Temple, Texas. Jesse Orlando Ellis Elizabeth Herrington Ellis 27 February 1886 1897 30 June 1967 21 August 1975 Marvin E. Ellis Rosa Lee Cummings May 10 December 1896 19 March 1883 22 July 1968 19 January 1963 James (Jim) A. May Eris Nelda Hyde May 21 January 1884 1923 - 1966 15 July 1962 Richard L. Byrd Eliza Jane Quit Byrd 1860 - 1939 14 April 1870 31 October 1956 Isaac Bertram Bell Dovie R. Byrd Bell 3 September 1889 14 January 1889 3 October 1963 Lucinda Jane Ratliff T. S. Richard Ratliff 23 August 1871 23 February 1899 13 August 1933 11 July 1939 Ruby R. Hallmark Ratliff Robert B. Ratliff 13 December 1901 1896 1 June 1944 21 February 1967 John E. Boydston Mae E. Young Boydston 4 March 1901 3 November 1900 December 1985 Edgar John Haufler Mamie Irwin Haufler 1898 - 1966 1899 7 February 1979 Wesley L. Young Eugenia McPhaul Young 5 December 1941 1875 - 1958 2 May 1960 William Love Young Jesse Irwin 1872 - 1941 1902 2 August 1963 Ora Lee Young Williams Mrs. N. E. Kirksey 1906 13 April 1861 9 October 1939 13 June 1918 Jesse Ellis Hunt Anna Bell Hoover Hunt 12 November 1872 1 April 1874 12 January 1968 7 February 1964 Tom Hunt Green Hunt 20 March 1881 13 February 1883 29 September 1956 28 July 1954 Sallie Hunt J. T. Hunt (Father) 22 September 1867 17 December 1840 20 February 1949 10 September 1921 L. G. Hunt (Mrs. J. T.)(Mother) Cal Hunt 11 January 1846 27 October 1875 31 January 1922 3 February 1913 Jay Hunt William (Bill) P. Johnson 8 April 1878 1898 - 1966 3 December 1949 Christine V. Johnson Joe E. Johnson, Sr. (Father 31 July 1924 1863 23 November 1933 7 February 1917 Bettie E. Johnson John Arnett Johnson October 1896 about 1889 September 1921 1 August 1938 Joe Johnson, Jr. John W. (Bill) Ratliff 30 April 1891 3 February 1894 23 November 1964 30 October 1956 W. D. Irwin Mollie E. Hunt Irwin 4 October 1861 17 December 1868 18 August 1943 31 January 1912 Gena Irwin Bernice Ellis 9 October 1889 31 December 1892 13 August 1907 24 June 1893 Mr. A. E. Ellis John T. Ellis (Husband of Caroline) 22 February 1850 26 April 1812 9 May 1884 14 November 1890 Amanda L. Wiggins Jennie Askew 13 May 1852 7 September 1886 30 December 1882 22 Octobewr 1892 Cynthie E. Wiggins Ellis Michael Joe Clark 25 September 1832 4 April 1963 11 December 1911 11 March 1964 Cohn C. Hoover Mollie Gower Hoover 28 June 1887 12 January 1892 17 October 1962 2 September 1969 Cornelious E. Boland Savana Elizabeth Boland 25 December 1874 4 March 1868 4 November 1882 5 September 1882 James E. Kerns May E. Swinney Riley 18 August 1873 1864 - 1941 7 November 1878 M. F. Riley Sally R. Glover 1850 - 1917 24 January 1881 22 September 1882 Wright T. Riley Edmund Harper Hammack 9 September 1886 18 September 1844 28 September 1886 3 January 1932 Margaret V. Boland Hammack Janie Hammack 3 November 1850 5 January 1881 11 July 1911 September 1882 Infant son of W. F. & Etta Sanders 1910 - 1910 George L. Hammack Amanda M. Wright Hammack 25 March 1867 17 January 1871 12 August 1949 13 February 1928 G. F. Helm Clara Helm 5 April 1841 29 January 1886 28 May 1889 2 February 1886 Mamie L. Helm Jasper Layfette Story 6 January 1881 1879 - 1941 29 September 1884 Minnie Story Susan C. Story 21 July 1881 30 October 1841 6 April 1883 27 February 1886 Josie Story Ann Story 1878 - 1932 3 July 1873 25 February 1943 Mary Ann Story Milton Story 1816 1 December 1808 1 September 1886 12 July 1891 C. A. Whiteley Aubry B. Whittenburg 16 April 1889 27 May 1894 18 April 1889 3 June 1895 CAPTAIN A. B. Ellington Ruth Box Ivie 15 November 1842 29 December 1803 20 November 1912 22 February 1895 Elisha Ivie (Oldest birthdate in this cemetery) 2 June 1802 2 August 1888 Bertie Weldon O'Dell Willie Mae Young O'Dell 911 - 1913 1961 Miles Elon Young Mary R. Katie Williams Young 29 January 1877 8 March 1881 15 October 1957 2 August 1942 Wilton N. Lee Wiliam Napoleon Lee 4 April 1923 26 May 1878 19 May 1936 29 January 1954 Daisie Dean Speer Lee Peter Shults 7 October 1884 1805 - 1868 6 December 1971 Emma Amos Willis Edward Ellis 10 August 1856 16 June 1881 22 March 187 1956 Jessie Mabel Farrar Ellis Amos Hampton Ellis 23 October 1888 13 September 1883 12 June 1973 30 March 1963 Nellie Gillum Ellis Louis M. Carpenter 13 April 1885 1 November 1879 11 October 1975 11 January 1890 Infant daughter of T. J. Sawyer William F. O'Dell 10 January 1907 1879 - 1959 11 January 1907 Lula Frances Story O'Dell Thomas Frank McBryde 1879 - 1934 16 October 1917 17 August 1957 Infant twin sons of Mance & Lizzie McBryde. Single grave. Mance L. McBryde 28 October 1909 1886 - 1952 28 October 1909 Lizzie A. Gower McBryde John Robert McBryde 1886 1911 27 December 1973 May 1946 Jeff Young Ellis Agnes McBryde Ellis 10 April 1887 21 September 1887 23 November 1959 18 April 1980 Dick Nichols C. H. (Pony) Nichols 1911 17 September 1878 July 1932 6 July 1959 W. C. (Bill) Cowan Mary Josephine Burke Cowan 6 January 1855 8 June 1858 22 December 1916 6 April 1915 Tom J. McBryde Mary Frances Grey McBryde 6 June 1845 26 March 1848 14 February 1925 20 March 1930 Claude McBryde Ira Leonard Cameron 18 April 1881 16 September 1906 8 April 1944 24 June 1917 Ethel Bridges Daniel (Mrs. Jack) Frances Elizabeth Ellis 24 February 1883 15 February 1891 25 June 1907 28 February 1891 Dr. John Wesley Ellis, LT, WWI Joe Thomas Ellis 27 July 1875 24 February 1879 11 May 1922 20 July 1951 Eliza E. Pearson Eakin Malinda Ivie Boydstun 12 June 1882 1839 - about 1863 1913 Alfred Boydston Mabel Pruitt Boydston 4 March 1901 10 September 1901 4 July 1959 William Enos Speer Carrie Zodonia Turnball Speer 23 December 1871 5 September 1872 27 October 1953 19 February 1958 Stillborn son of Willie & Carrie Speer 1898 - 1898 Little Annie Speer Robert Alfred Speer 28 September 1899 1893 - 1910 about June 1900 Elizabeth Harper Ivory Oler Griffin Unknown 7 August 1881 3 October 1892 18 March 1884 John Morgan Boydstun James (Jim) Washington Boydston 1 December 1860 9 February 1859 (Error on tomb) 3 March 1929 19 January 1937 Lenora P. Goodwin Boydston Statie Boydston Swinney Hammonds 2 May 1865 5 June 1883 7 March 1951 6 January 1942 Frank Hammack May Boydston Hammack 13 February 1879 13 March 1880 13 August 1933 16 November 1964 Carl Leonard Ellis Willis Sanders Ellis 24 June 1893 19 December 1844 2 March 1941 11 March 1929 Charlotte Jane Boydstun Ellis Clarence Van Liew 3 December 1857 7 August 1897 18 March 1943 15 May 1904 Bird Hunt Herrington Herbert Herrington 19 December 1904 18 June 1901 28 November 1932 17 March 1918 Malinda Roann Ellis Herrington William (Bill) A. Herrington 5 March 1877 1877 - 1928 5 January 1967 Mancel C. McBryde Paralee Yoes McBryde 1 March 1876 23 January 1883 1 May 1943 31 December 1970 Etta McBryde Frank McBryde, Sr. 11 January 1872 6 March 1849 12 March 1924 4 November 1919 Mary E. Hoover McBryde Frank N. McBryde, Jr. 26 March 1853 28 November 1878 20 March 1907 12 September 1896 Allen Haynes Parrie McBryde Haynes 14 May 1872 25 December 1874 25 June 1953 7 August 1957 Claude Debo Jasper Bowmer 25 November 1882 19 January 1834 5 September 1900 5 March 1898 James Clay Cook Preston Brooks Hoover 2 February 1897 1857 - 1935 17 October 189 Thomas Alfred Speer Margaret Ann Harpewr Speer 9 September 1848 28 July 1849 23 April 1923 11 February 1933 The following graves in the Maxdale Cemetery were either missed in the DAR, 1967, catalogue or have been identified and marked since that time, or have been added since 1967. Winifred Ellis Bell Rt. 2, Killeen, Texas 76541 Lillie Tipton Johnson Miss Mary Hammack 1897 19 April 1877 1 April 1972 15 July 1972 James Ira Williams Lloyd Caldwell Ellis 31 August 1892 9 December 1906 8 September 1972 31 January 1973 Amanda Riley Story Lester J. Windham 25 May 1892 12 March 1895 24 April 1973 16 August 1973 Herman Alton Ellis James Ferguson (Jimmy) Young 1903 27 October 1914 1 July 1974 22 September 1974 A. W. Tipton (Adcur) Nellie Gillum Ellis 29 September 1902 13 April 1885 27 November 1974 11 October 1975 Muriel May Watkins Eva Jona Alexandeer Adams 5 October 1922 31 March 1905 26 January 1976 20 October 1975 Joseph Raymond Cassacio John Hunt 4 November 1959 10 July 1895 20 July 1976 23 July 1976 Joe Wilson, Sr. Ellis B. Herrington, Sr. 31 January 1890 21 May 1905 5 December 1977 25 April 1978 Edwin Spaulding Southworth Jack Young 6 March 1895 1 March 1904 30 April 1978 3 July 1978 May Ellis Tommie E. Driggers 2 December 1890 4 December 1913 20 October 1978 3 November 1978 Mamie Irwin Haufler Sarah A. Burks Boydstun 1899 23 October 1864 7 February 1979 4 February 1893 George Griffin Jerd C. Patterson about 1860 - 1938 26 March 1860 23 June 1933 Dave Wright Alice Hammack Wright 21 March 1876 11 January 1873 22 April 1926 20 November 1962 Marvin Ray Ellis (John Ellis' baby) about 1901 - about 1901 Mrs. Juan Soto Four Soto Children Unknown - about 1923 after 1910 - about 1920-1925 Eunice Bridges Jim L. Wright about 1889 - about 1904 about 1896 - about 1930 Mettie B. Harper Barbara Williams about 1895 - about 1918 about 1847 - 1913 Lorenzo Dow Williams Dicy Ann Davis Pruett about 1841 - about 1901 14 August 1860 25 February 1901 Dona A. Morgan Ellis Baby of Mr. & Mrs. Dave Hardcastle 1881 - 1968 about 1917 - about 1917 Nancy Harper Davis Baby of Tom & Rose Hoover about 1845 - about 1885 Stillborn - 1899 B. Perry - Son of Milton & Dollie Stillborn 1926 - 1926 Arylis Speer (Enos Speer baby) Henry & Mattie Hoover's baby 1925 - 1926 about 1895 - 1895 Vero Ratliff, Baby of J. W. & Viola Martin Ratliff 1 March 1925 30 March 1925 Baby son of J. W. (Bill) & Viola Ratliff Stillborn twin; girl twin, Willie, lived. DOB unknown - April 1927 Luther Clements Duncan James W. Adams 20 September 1969 28 February 1876 28 September 1969 12 September 1958 Elbert B. Tipton Winifred Ellis Bell 12 February 1905 27 January 1919 5 July 1977 15 January 1984 Isaac B. (Bud) Bell, Jr. Albert Bond 12 March 1919 25 February 1897 30 January 1969 Cordelia Speer Ellis Southworth Mrs. Newton Hughes 16 June 1889 about 1847 - about May 1924 4 August 1988 Mrs. Margaret Ann Hughes Fern McBryde Bond Dawson about 1850 - about 1920 30 August 1901 24 October 1988 Louisa A. Marlar (This is the oldest dated grave in this cemetery. If 4 March 1849 others are older, they are undated and unnamed.) 3 November 1867 Baby of Charlie & Ollie Smith Baby of Lee & Lora Harper Stillborn - about 1936 Stilborn - before 1900 Thorp & Mosley (in high rock fence) First names unknown. (Killed by about 1857 - about 1876 John Carver. Mosley was under 20 years old. See Killeen Herald, 27 February 1972, for account of this.) Maggie Luella Ellis B. Hilton O'Dell 10 November 1889 December 1932 15 December 1980 December 1969 Daisy V. Driggers Three Babies (Triplets of J. B. & 1918 - Barbara Carden) Stillborn - about 1900. Single grave. Initials A F H (Name unknown) Baby of J. W. & Nora Boydston Unknown Stillborn 1888 - about 1888 before 1900 Baby of J. W. & Nora Boydston Baby of Jim & Nora Boydston about 1893 - about 1893 about 1899 - about 1899 Baby of Jim & Nora Boydston Lura N. Bird Tipton about 1907 - about 1908 6 December 1904 16 July 1979 Octa Ellis Irwin Zell Ray Hunt 1908 - 1987 1 December 1902 Laverne Hunt Windham Juanita Hammack (Mrs. Rusty) 18 March 1902 1925 - 1943 Mrs. Bell Grandmother of Joe, Bill and Arnett Johnson. Mother about 1840 - before 1904 of Mrs. Joe E. Johnson, Sr. W. U. Eakin Minnie K. Ratliff Davis 1831 - 1850 1892 - 1975 Robert Riley Baby of M. F. & Mae Riley. 8 June 1894 14 July 1895 Baby of Emma & J. P. Amos Dickie W. Spears 1879 - 1879 31 December 1928 10 September 1979 Ancel Hobert Irwin Burell H. Huggins 14 March 1897 1831 7 October 1979 14 March 1885 Rachel T. Wade Huggins Alma Marguerite Nichols 20 January 1835 (1) Thornton 17 February 1906 (2) Douglas (3) Prijean 10 January 1916 9 April 1987 Jesse D. O'Dell Daisy Murphy O'Dell 4 August 1904 30 June 1903 24 November 1959 Doris Kincade Young Currie Gillum Irwin 28 January 1913 18 March 1900 12 November 1981 Dean Ellis Franks Julia Ellis Franks 7 December 1910 20 November 1910 15 January 1988 Julius Row Hammack Velenah Orand Wilson 7 August 1905 20 June 1908 23 April 1982 Floyd A. Perry Wallace James Young 28 February 1911 30 March 1898 9 September 1982 28 September 1983 Leslie N. (Bud) Nichols Esther Belle Hunt White 22 March 1904 7 May 1900 13 January 1984 M. L. (Tubby) Robertson Merle Hunt Barnes 2 January 1912 1912 - 1985 20 August 1984 Ida Howells Garner Jacque Smith Hardaway 18 April 1905 7 April 1929 6 June 1985 4 April 1986 James Thurman Brown Joe Mack Robertson 8 November 1915 16 October 1934 4 November 1986 16 December 1986 Bessie Mae Irwin Ira O'Dell 1929 27 July 1903 10 October 1986 23 March 1987 R. Hammack (Omitted) Ila B. Spears Robertson Cleo May Duncan 24 August 1913 1904 5 May 1988 9 May 1988 Luther Vasco Duncan Harlan Paul Tipton 12 April 1930 19 May 1988 31 May 1988 A. Shaffer Herbert C. Barrington 31 August 1911 9 October 1919 26 August 1988 22 December 1988 Morris B. Smith Thomas Hardaway 23 April 1916 25 April 1927 2 January 1989 27 December 1988 Leland Barnes Unknown 22 January 1989 CIVIL WAR CAPT. A. B. Ellington - 1842 - 1912 Burrell H. Huggins - Alabama North Carolina Confederate Soldier Confederate Soldier John T. Hunt - Missippi Confederate Soldier Edmond Harper Hammack - Georgia veteran Frank MCbryde, Sr. - Texas Confederate Soldier WORLD WAR I Carl L. Ellis - PVT, 1st CL 143d Inf. Texas 36th Div Dr. John W. Ellis - LT, Medical Corps Marvin E. Ellis - PVT, US Army John Hunt - PVT, US Army Joe Johnson - PFC, 317th PACK TN QMC John Arnett Johnson - PVT, 312th Motor Repr. MTC Edwin S. Southworth - 2d LT, Inf, US Army James Ira Williams - PVT, US Army Joe Wilson, Sr. - PVT, US Army Lester J. Windham, CPL, US Army Albert Bond - US Navy WORLD WAR II Tommie Edward Driggers - SFC WWII & Korea Jack Young - EM2, (CBs) US Navy James F. Young - US Army Isaac B. (Bud) Bell, Jr. - SGT, Army Air Force Richard (Dickie) W. Spears - PVT, US Army H. C. (Hap) Barrington - CPL, 96th Div, US ARmy Alfred A. Shaffer - US Army CEMETERY RECORDS CATALOGUED AND MAINTAINED BY: Winifred Ellis Bell, until her death on 15 January 1984. Mrs. W. C. (Sally) Walden continues to maintain the Maxdale Cemetery records (9 April 1989). COMPUTER IN/OUT PUT BY: Polly Peaks Elmore 9 April 1989