CALLAHAN COUNTY - COTTONWOOD WEST CEMETERY Contributed by: - Gary & Wanda Marsh and Margie & Dakota Duncan http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/Callahan/Callahan.html ******************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ******************************************************************************** COTTONWOOD CEMETERY Cottonwood Community is located 9 miles Northwest of Cross Plains on FM 880. It's a small farming & ranching community of about 90 people. It has two active churches, Baptist & Church of Christ. Community Center is the Old School House. My husband & I have taken pictures of each headstone. Adams, Eva P. 8-31-1921 - 2-04-1951 Adams, James V. 5-06-1917 - 1-29-1956 Adams, James Vernon Texas PVT AC5 REPL Depot World War II 5-6-1917 - 1-29-1956 Archer, Douglas M., 1945-1992 Archer, Judy Lynn 1949- married - 3-21-1968 Archer, Franklin Earl 8-22-1890 - 10-16-1966 Archer, Maggie Jewell 1-18-1911 - 12-27-1996 Archer, Raymond Dan 6-9-1943 - 7-7-1995 Arvin, Beulah 11-24-1880 - 12-05-1988 Arvin, Marjorie A. 05-27-1880 - 09-26-1976 Arvin, Ferrell Coats Texas TEC 8 CO C 138 ENGR C BN World War II 03-03-1905 - 5-10-1963 Bennett, Gayna Ann - 3-18-1963- 2-14-1967 Bennett, Levi E. Texas PVT US Army World War II 5-22-1897 - 5-12-1966 Bennett, Levi E. 5-22-1897 - 5-12-1966 Bennett, Eva Eula 10-1-1908 - 9-21-1994 Marriage 5-23-1925 Bennett, Marjorie C. 12-28-1927 - 2-20-1956 Bishop, Annie M. 10-26-1891 - 6-13-1984 Blanton, James E. 7-9-1919 - 8-31-1981 CPL US ARMY Blanton, Reva C. 5-1-1927 - 10-9-1984 Bowen, Cora M. 1880 - 1958 Bowen, Q. Jess 1874 - 1959 Breeding, Arlie Lee 10-5-1914 - 11-20-1990 Breeding, Ora Clark 4-8-1921 Brown, Wayne 1931 - 2001 Bush, Ed 1882 - 1963 Bush, Ida 1882 - 1963 Bush, Lester Ree 1904 - 2001 Bush, Melvin Dean 8-24-1935 - 1-29-1999 US Air Force Vietnam Bush, Melvin D. 8-24-1935 - 1-29-1999 Calhoun, Jeanie 9-1-1973 - 3-13-1990 Casey, U Francis - 1900 - 1960 Casey, Jessie M. - 1906 - Caudle, Emmett Dale SGT US Army World War II 1926 - 1986 Caudle, Emmett Dale 11-23-1926 - 7-7-1986 Caudle, Barbara Helen 07-17-1918 - Chalk, Donald S. 9-12-1913 - 4-22-1988 Chalk, Lois M. 4-8-1925 - Chalk, Donald S. TEC 5 US Army World War II 09-12-1913 - 4-22-1988 Purple Heart Champion, Calvin T. 1892 - 1971 Champion, Alice K. 1900 - 1981 married 8-17-1919 Champion, Glenn "Champ" 2-5-1934 - 8-14-1998 Chamption, Ethel 3-15-1938 Married 11-28-1958 Champion, Robert Lee 7-23-1924 Champion, Murl Barnett 7-23-1930 - 10-19-1998 married 4-2-1950 Champion, William F. 1-21-1913 - 3-8-1970 Champion, Pauline 1-26-1920 - 6-5-2001 Married 1-26-1957 Champion, William F. Texas S Sgt 400 8 AST Unit AAF World War II 1-21-1913 - 3-8-1970 Childers, Lillie M. 6-13-1901 - 4-15-1981 Childers, Custer Blanton 6-11-1913 - 2-11-1997 Childers, Lillie Wilcoxen 6-25-1917 - 8-19-1999 Childress, Dan L. 12-16-1914 - 7-20-2000 Childress, Nancy J. 5-20-1918 - 5-12-1997 Christensen, David CG. 11-06-1935 - 5-8-1962 Clark, Alice L. 12-30-1929 Clark, Jesse C. 8-31-1916 - 1-13-1991 Married 8-13-1951 Clark, Jesse C. US Navy World War II 8-13-1916 - 1-13-1991 Clark, James P. 1913 - 1993 Clark, Nettie B. 1914 - 1998 Married 8-3-1951 Clark, Naoma Ethel 2-9-1895 - 12-11-1982 Clark, Ernest M. 1899 - 1954 Clark, Myrtle M. 1904 - 1945 Coats, John H. 7-24-1874 - 5-7-1961 Coats, Carrie E. 3-16-1879 - 2-3-1955 Coats, Leonard 6-12-1911 - 9-19-2000 Coats, Loe D. 2-28-1921 - 4-08-1990 Coats, Charles W. Jr. 3-10-1922 - 6-12-1998 Coats, Charles Wesley Texas CPL CO C 53 Ammo TN CAC World War II 12-23-1892 - 10-26-1962 Coats, Charles Weley III 11-12-1954 - 11-14-1954 Coffey, James F. 1871 - 1950 Coffey, Lula 1878 - 1968 Coffey, Durward Everett 3-1-1937 - 2-19-1971 Coffey, Floyd 4-30-1901 - 8-4-1982 Coffey, Mae 11-04-1900 - 7-30-1987 Coffey, Jimmy Glenn A2C US Air Force 3-21-1932 - 5-2-1992 Coffey, Norman V. 9-9-1911 - 7-13-1974 Coffey, Dixie F. 5-9-1911 - 4-04-1999 Cowan, Doyle W. 5-1-1922 - 4-18-1998 Cowan, Clara M. 7-10-1920 - 8-9-1995 married 6-29-1942 Cowan, Doyle Wayne 51 US Navy World War II 5-1-1922 - 4-18-1998 Silver Star Crawley. John I. 10-16-1900 - 6-16-1988 Crawley, Nora Bell 9-1-1905 - 7-18-1978 Married 5-21-1924 Davidson, Johnnie 12-31-1901 - 2-2-1968 Davidson, Stella 3-7-1908 - Davidson, Lynn - Carlton 9-22-1935 - 11-8-1984 Davidson, Tommy Pate 8-8-1938 - 5-23-1962 Deford, Claude R. 12-26-1902 - 1-16-1983 Deford, Mattie M. 4-14-1907 - 9-29-1983 Married 7-1-1927 Dickey, Paul Lee 2-17-1935 - 6-15-1956 Duncan, Doris, Infant Daughter of Lon and Norene Duncan 5-16-1946 Duncan, E.D. 1-13-1888 - 2-2-1967 Duncan, Lisa Dawn 1973 Daughter of Elmer & Barbara Reynols Duncan Duncan, Lon O. PFC US Army World War II 7-5-1916 - 10-27-1994 Dunn, S.R. (Ronald) 4-27-1911 - 12-1-1966 Dunn, Myrtle Ann 1-02-1916 - Eckles, Danny Keith 1946 - 1948 Edwards, Roy Graden 7-10-1914 - 2-9-1988 Edwards, Violet Leola Wilcoxen 3-9-1920 - Ellis, Herbert R. 11-18-1919 - 6-3-1998 Ellis, Juanita 7-13-1924 Ellis, Mary P. Eudaley, Edward F. 9-22-1880 - 10-1-1956 Eudaley, Robert William 10-3-1903 - 1-27-1995 Eudaley, Mary Yolanda 7-10-1917 - Married 8-10-1935 Eudaley, John Clint PFC US Army World War II 1-2-1907 - 11-29-1988 Flowers, Ed 1891 - 1982 Ford, Mildred L. 4-13-1908 - 1-25-1999 Fulton, Virgil L. 12-3-1876 - 9-11-1967 Fulton, Lena B. (Ayres) 5-26-1883 - 4-5-1961 Grafford, J.S. 1867 - 19__ Grafford, Mary C. 1871 - 19__ George, Ronnie Everette 10-18-1950 - 7-18-1994 Gill, William Ace 2-22-1898 - 3-25-1971 Gill, Verne V. 4-19-1903 - 3-17-1988 Married 9-16-1922 Gilleland, Rev. Wm B. 1884 - 1949 Gilleland, Frances C. 1888 - 1952 Goble, Cecil I. 7-12-1914 - 3-23-1998 Goble, L. Delilah Wilcoxen 5-20-1923 - Married 4-26-1939 Green, Talmadge W. 8-29-1893 - 5-21-1977 Green, Thelma C. 5-18-1911 - 7-12-2001 Griffin, Homer T. 10-29-1902 - Griffin, Maggie M. 5-10-1910 - 4-26-1996 Married 12-21-1933 Hargrove, Alvin L. 7-16-1915 - 2-28-2001 Hargrove, B.R. Jr. 4-5-1917 - 5-28-1996 Hargrove, Gladys Glenn 6-11-1932 - 4-23-1980 Hargrove, D.C. S 5GT US Army World War II 11-14-1917 - 3-29-1989 Purple Heart Hargrove, Robert L. 4-17-1971 - 2-6-1994 Hargrove, Melvin C. 9-5-1913 - 7-1-1984 Hargrove, Martha E. 1-5-1916 - 4-15-1994 Married 5-19-1934 Hargrove, Dave C. 12-11-1882 - 5-20-1965 Hargrove, Bulah 2-14-1892 - 9-3-1980 Hargrove, D.C. 11-14-1917 - 3-29-1989 Hargrove, B. Lois 3-7-1917 - Married 4-3-1947 Hargrove, Michael Vernon 9-4-1951 - 11-30-1992 Heath, Harvey Carl 7-24-1913 - 11-22-1985 Heath, Alice Mae Ford 7-7-1925 - Higdon, Alex L. 3-21-1904 - 9-3-1978 Higdon, Oma E. 4-7-1905 - 1-18-1984 Higdon, Robert W. 5-25-1928 - 5-15-1989 Higgins, Zona A. 8-12-1893 - 3-25-1976 Hilburn, Homer D. 11-24-1940 - 7-4-2000 Hilburn, Peggy J. Shults 1-5-1943 - Married 10-18-1966 Holley, Alma (Dutch) 6-25-1900 - 1-29-1991 Holley, Frances (Frankie) W. 1-4-1927 - 7-27-1991 Holley, Truett H. 5-1-1924 - 12-3-1972 Holley, Wendell B. (Bubba) 1-2-1952 - 12-3-1972 Horn, Leo L. 7-3-1938 - 12-1-1984 Horn, Jame U. 4-10-1948 - Horn, Robert D. SC3 US Navy World War II 1927 - 1977 Horn, Robert 8-7-1926 - 8-4-1977 Houston, Christene 5-17-1921 - 4-1-1984 Howard, James T. 1903 1972 Howard, Georgia M. 1906 - 1989 Howland, Cora 9-7-1890 - 4-30-1997 Jones, Mary E. 1896 - 1980 Jones, Buddie B. 1886 - 1947 Jones, Robert G. 1862 - 1947 Jones, Nancy J. 1865 - 1959 Jones, - Wilda Jean 6-6-1928 - 2-11-1991 Jordan, Roy Jordan, Mable Children of Mable & Roy P. Roxa Lee Jordan Claire Bell Jordan Marjorie Christine Jordan Joy, Claude C. 4-5-1900 - 2-20-1985 Joy, Ruth N. 12-19-1909 - 11-11-1994 Joy, O.B. 1-31-1914 - 5-9-1992 Joy, Olga 8-7-1915 - Married 12-16-1939 Joy, Robert Fielding, Jr. PFC US Army World War II 11-19-1923 - 5-7-1997 Joy, Robert Fielding Sr. 11-26-1893 - 6-18-1976 Joy, Lois 1-27-1896 - 3-14-1985 Kelly, Fred A. US Navy World War II 4-9-1915 - 9-21-1996 Kelly, Dorothy Flint 12-21-1924 - 11-27-1996 Kelly, Fred Arvin 4-9-1916 - 9-21-1996 Kelly, Young H. 1899 - 1974 Kelly, Susie G. 1900 - 1965 Kelly, Marshall J. 7-23-1903 - 5-4-1986 Kelly, Bertha A. 10-4-1908 - 8-16-1990 Married 10-15-1924 Kinyon, Paula Elizabeth (Droopy Drawers) 3-21-1975 - 8-28-1982 Landon, F.W. (Frank) 9-20-1919 Landon, Nellie Mae Lovell 2-25-1919 - 9-7-1993 Married 1-24-1947 Lawson, Claude Garland Col US Army Air Corps World War II 10-26-1924 - 12-20-1987 Lemonds, Roy W. PFC US Army World War II 7-11-1925 - 8-26-1997 Lemond, Roy W. 7-11-1925 - 8-26-1992 Lemond, Mable Claire (Fulton) 8-18-1902 - 4-6-1994 Lovell, Albert C. 2-27-1921 - Lovell, Dorothy L. 1-28-1925 - Maddox, Rufus A. 1886 - 1966 Maddox, Laura G. 1883 - 1961 Matthiessen, L. Pauline 10-18-1919 - 12-20-1993 McBride, Charles R. 5-19-1922 - 1972 McGowen, Darlene R. (Hargrove) 10-24-1948 - 1-8-1972 McGee, Charles A. 1888 - 1968 McGee, Rachel E. 1894 - 1992 McKeehan, Jim E. 3-3-1901 - 4-2-1974 McKeehan, Maggie Bell 4-17-1922 - Married 8-2-1943 McKeehan, Malcom L. 1932 - 1954 McLellan, L.B. 2-3-1914 - 9-24-1993 McLellan, Gladys F. Booth 7-14-1913 - 7-25-1992 Married 10-27-1936 McWilliams, Maude 1875 - 1951 McWilliams, W.M. 1873 - 1962 Mitchell, Pender 11-16-1909 - 11-12-1987 Mitchell, Gladys 8-6-1913 - 5-6-1988 Moon, Christopher Lee 8-16-1970 - 5-18-1998 Moore, Blanche 2-7-1907 - 2-23-1998 Moore, Burnice A. 6-20-1906 - 9-5-1984 Moore, W.F. (Dub) 6-25-1926 - Moore, Patricia Deford 11-26-1929 - Married 2-6-1952 Moore, Mrs. Sam A. (Frances) 1874 - 1956 Moore, Sam A. 1874 - 1950 Murphy, R.L. 5-26-1911 - 5-20-1999 Murphy, Mary Eula 5-28-1915 - 10-25-1998 Married 11-14-1932 Newman, Billy Dean BT2 US Navy 1-5-1937 - 1-27-1986 Nickerson, Willie Bufford 2-20-1936 - 7-31-1999 Nickerson, Nadine Weaver 10-27-1934 - Married 7-1-1954 Parents of Kathy June, Willie B. Jr., Connie Hean, Dena Jo and Myrl Glynn Nordyke, Theodore R. Texas PVT US Army World War II 6-4-1903 - 4-24-1966 Nordyke, John 1882 - 1952 Off, Gertrude M. 11-22-1901 - 11-11-1986 Off, Roger E. US Army World War II 12-23-1925 - 6-16-1995 Parker, Tinie B. 1886 - 1960 Payne, Albert J. 1-12-1883 - 9-18-1948 Payne, Minnie E. 5-21-1893 - 9-28-1971 Peevy, Robert (Sub) 8-31-1899 - 1-21-1996 Peevy, Thelma (Champion) 12-13-1901 - 3-11-1994 Price, Emmett M. 3-30-1913 - 11-03-1984 Price, Lorene F. 10-3-1919 - 5-21-1990 Married 10-5-1937 Price, Westly Wayne 2-15-1941 - 3-13-1979 Purvis, Rosa B. 9-10-1882 - 5-5-1968 Purvis, George M. 10-11-1872 - 5-4-1948 Ramey, Grady W. 3-3-1924 Ramey, Dorothy M. 10-11-1924 Respess, Beulah & Hazel Respess, Ford Walker Texas S2 USNRF World War I 8-10-1897 - 10-18-1954 Respess, Obera & Walker Robinson, William T. 9-2-1907 - 2-25-1980 Robinson, Mabel E. 5-8-1911 - 2-6-1997 Robinson, Martha L. 1-18-1942 Robinson, Vivian 8-26-1936 Robinson, William Jasper 7-3-1954 - 12-3-1978 Robinson, Wyatt W. 12-19-1900 - 12-25-1968 Sandifer, Ormond O. 12-7-1904 - 5-31-1974 Sandifer, Cornelia W. 10-12-1905 - 11-24-1982 Sandifer, Ormond O. PFC US Marine Corps 12-7-1901 - 5-31-1974 Shaw, Drucie Bell 1908 - 1953 Shelton, Elbert E. 7-18-1898 - 12-20-1959 Shelton, Lillian 4-13-1899 - Shirley, James Boyd 1-19-1915 - Shirley, Myerl Forbes 10-31-1916 - 9-11-1983 Married 6-5-1938 Simpson, Turner 3-10-1914 - 4-24-1999 Simpson, Ellen F. 6-12-1914 - Smith, Anna 1956 - 1999 Smith, Mary Ayres 1885 - 1964 Sparks, Florence Coppinger 10-6-1896 - 3-14-1986 Sparks, Jesse M. 1-18-1887 - 5-13-1972 Sparks, J.M. Jr. 1925 - 1974 Spencer, R. Warren 10-12-1913 Spencer, Beulah Irene Clifton 3-19-1916 - 2-22-1973 Sproles, Grady Ray 1-21-1920 - 6-27-1985 Sproles, Bonnie Lee Duncan 5-28-1924 - 9-11-1985 Married 11-21-1940 Stansbury, William M. 8-23-1915 - 10-6-1992 Stansbury, Mildred L. 11-19-1919 - 9-4-1992 Strahan, Dr. Bruce B. 8-24-1920 Strahan, Miriam Stanford 2-18-1924 Married 7-16-1943 Strahan, J. Howard 1882 - 1976 Strahan, Emma Belle 1890 - 1981 Strahan, Jim H. 9-14-1916 Strahan, Enid G. 12-16-1920 - 8-4-1997 Strahan, Ed (Bud) 3-27-1899 - 1978 Strahan, Seth B. Texas PVT 109 MIL Police 34 DIV 3-13-1889 - 2-25-1945 Strahan, Kate 5-2-1901 - 3-31-1996 Buried in Pioneer Cemetery Strahan, T. Arden 9-27-1924 - 5-27-2001 Strahan, Lola F. 8-10-1928 Married 3-9-1947 Stroud, Isla Bartley 8-15-1920 Stroud, Xana L. T SGT US Army World War II 4-3-1917 - 5-11-1992 Stround, Xana Lee 4-3-1917 - 5-11-1992 Sudderth, Leeland Irvin 6-19-1892 - 7-10-1955 Sudderth, Lou Ella 1-13-1893 - 11-23-1992 Sumners, Roy P. 6-7-1927 - 4-4-1978 Sumners, Viola C. 2-11-1927 Thomas, C.V. (Doc) 6-22-1907 - 7-13-1989 Thomas, Fannie Mae 5-28-1931 Thomas, Houston 1864 - 1959 Thomas, Miltie 1869 - 1951 Thomas, Mary 1-16-1905 - 2-17-2001 Thomas, Elmer Lee 4-16-1900 - 8-11-1943 Thompson, Richard 3-25-1890 - 8-3-1983 Thompson, Nellie 9-3-1890 - 5-2-1983 Thompson, R. Gloster 1-5-1919 - 3-15-1981 Thompson, Dorothy N. 12-15-1921 Thompson, Richard G. Lt Col US Air Force WWII - Korea - Vietnam 1-5-1919 - 3-15-1981 Varner, Harry S. 10-17-1873 - 11-9-1959 Varner, Martha Eva 2-5-1876 - 5-20-1965 Varner, Walter Texas Sgt US Army World War II 9-12-1900 - 1-1-1969 Varner, Will 1882 - 1953 Varner, Sally - 1889 - 1961 Walsh, Billy Charles 11-8-1944 - 11-26-1975 Ware, Erman B. PVT US Army World War II 10-21-1926 - 9-14-1993 Weaver, Carl H. 10-12-1929 - 7-19-1947 Weaver, Eva Mae 9-15-1906 - 12-9-1948 Weaver, Erby E. 2-22-1893 - 4-13-1972 Webb, William Carroll - 8-16-1901 - 3-30-1980 Webster, Iva Nell 9-20-1925 - 12-30-1999 Webster, Burnice E. 12-10-1916 - 5-1-1997 Whatley, Margaret E. 6-17-1876 - 3-6-1966 Wheeler, Bertha Sarah 1-4-1906 - 4-10-1996 Whitehead, Bryan Lee 1-6-1960 - 4-11-1991 Sons: Joshua, Jack, Ruben, Aaron Whitehead, S.G. (Jack) 6-22-1907 - 11-25-1977 Whitehead, Frances E. 12-24-1906 - 3-8-1990 Married 11-23-1928 Whitehorn, Lois R. 1892 - 1983 Whitehorn, Henry B. 1883 - 1958 Whitehorn, Charley W. Texas CPL 397 AAA AW BN CAC World War II 7-4-1917 - 3-22-1963 Whitehorn, Rheba 9-3-1915 - 4-12-1985 Wilcoxen, Calvin M. 10-23-1885 - 7-3-1963 Wilcoxen, Nancy L. 1-31-1895 - 11-27-1957 Wilcoxen, Clarence 8-28-1909 - 12-21-1985 Wilcoxen, Manuel Parrish 11-24-1888 - 1-19-1972 Wilcoxen, Cora Belle 7-4-1888 - 10-23-1969 Married 8-6-1905 Wilcoxen, Harvey C. 5-26-1907 - 5-27-1979 Wilcoxen, William T. 2-22-1897 - 12-14-1972 Wilcoxen, Napoleon Gilbert 11-2-1898 - 11-16-1976 Wilcoxen, Jessie Leola 10-14-1899 - 6-7-1994 Williams, W.M. (Mac) 1873 - 1962 Williams, Maud - 1875 - 1951 Williams, Corine W. 1-26-1902 - 6-23-1978 Wilson, Frank Vernon 1-21-1900 - 3-4-1972 Wilson, Alpha Leota 5-4-1906 - 2-10-2000 Winslett, Davis H. 1920 Winslett, Jimmie Lee 1915 - 1973 Woody, Lola Jean Parks 4-16-1947 - 8-20-1986 Son: Dwayne Duncan Woody, Ettie Jewel 9-4-1897 - 2-22-1985 Woody, Thomas Y. (Ty) 9-4-1882 - 6-8-1976 Married 12-21-1916 Wyatt, T.B. 12-5-1882 - 11-4-1969 Wyatt, Mina M. 12-13-1896 - 5-3-1963 Young, Media 1878 - 1948