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Riley Cemetery

1300 Riley Drive

Carrollton

(Denton County)

TX



The Riley Cemetery is a designated Carrollton Historic Site. Take Hebron

Parkway to Eisenhower.  South on Eisenhower to Riley, and west on Riley.

The cemetery is about half-way down the block on a hill on the right side 

(north) of the road, nestled between houses.



The cemetery is surrounded by an iron fence; the gate is open and the small 

cemetery is accessible to the public.  There are only seven markers left in 

the cemetery.  There are probably several other unmarked graves at the site.



From the historical marker on the site:

"Born in Indiana in 1815, Jacob RIley came to southeastern Denton County in 

the mid-1850s and claimed a preemption grant of 160 acres on Indian Creek.  

He and his descendants held the land for over 100 years. As family members 

died, they were buried on this site overlooking the Elm Fork of the Trinity 

River.  The little cemetery was high enough to avoid flooding, and it remained 

undisturbed until devlopment of the property began in 1996. Typical of remote 

pioneer homesteads and once quite common, few family burial grounds remain.



DEC 2005/Bob Leahy





Last, First Middle (Maiden)	DOB		DOD		Notes

									

McKeuhn (?), Mitchie E.		2-20-1893	3-?-1896

Riley, Jacob			3-3-1815	2-6-1880	f/o Owen

Riley,Lawrence Jacob		5-15-1879	7-21-1952	s/o Owen & Rebecca

Riley,Leonard D.		5-15-1878	2-6-1882	s/o Owen & Rebecca

Riley, Owen Decatur		10-18-1847	7-14-1888	s/o Jacob

Riley, Rebecca (Ritchey)	9-9-1852	3-28-1936	w/o Owen

Ritchey, Amanda			12-29-1854	10-10-1888	m/o Rebecca