PUNCHARD CEMETERY
Inventory taken June 2006
Submitted By: Debra LaMel dlamel@sw.rr.com
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This cemetery is located off FM Road 437 after the small town of Red Ranger in Bell Co TX. 
Directions to this cemetery is as follows: 
From Temple take Hwy 53 East (Also the Adams Street Exit) through Seaton and Zabcikville
Turn Right on FM Road 437 and go about 3.6 miles you will come to a bunch of trees
on the right side of the road with a small dirt road in between the trees and a corn field.
Turn right between the two and follow it about 50 yards or so. Look really closely in the trees 
to the right or you will miss it the stones are not visible from the road but the old rusted iron fence is 
partially visiable. This cemetery is badly overgrown with brush and trees and all the stones  
are covered with trees and underbrush some are not accessible at all. I did take photo's 
of the ones I could. And some others I wrote the information because I could not take a photo 
due to the bad brush overgrowth. There are about 20-25 graves.These are the only ones I could access. 
If the transcription has a X I do have a Photo of the grave.
I had to go through a barb wire fence in order to access this cemetery as well.

NAME							BORN			DIED		NOTE

Punchard, W H  			 		November 9, 1883 	 September 30, 1928 	

Punchard, J S   			 	March 31, 1850 	 	 June 30, 1924 		Note 1

Swinney, Mary(wife of Capt. J W Swinney) 	July 3,1839 	 	 July 22, 1912 	 	X; Children W. A., L. A., Lola, Jimmey, Amos, Lewis, William    
					 
Punchard, Thomas Walter   			1890			 1950			X

Punchard, Annie Alice   		 	June 29, 1888 	 	 April 18, 1936 	X
   (wife of T. W. Punchard)

Punchard, Susie Neoma  	 			June 30, 1915 	 	 July 17, 1915 		X
   (dau of T. W. and A. A. Punchard) 

Sullivan, W/M?  E. Lee   		 	June 19, 1871 		 March 3, 1882 	 
   (son of SL and JS Sullivan)

Whatley, Eudora Elizabeth   			December 26, 1883	 September 6, 1902 	Note 2
   (daughter of OJ & MJ Whatley)
					
Lupton, John   					July 15, 1882 	 	 October 15, 1946 	

Meachum, Philip Gathings 			Feburary 22, 1851 	 June 26, 1926 		X

Meachum, Sophronia Eliza  			May 14, 1855 	 	 May 25, 1902 		X


To Researchers these last 2 are who I was looking for in this cemetery and decided to transcribe the 
ones I could read so they won't be lost forever. There are more visible graves however I could not 
get to them for the overgrown brush. I did the best I could to document this cemetery for future reference.					
It has no visible sign for the name of the Cemetery but I do have a couple of photos I also took of the broken rusted fence showing a marker.					

Note 1 in Bell Co Probate in 1924 is a James S. Punchard this may be him.					
Note 2 in Bell co Probate is a Mary J Whatley 1909 this may be her mother MJ.