Ranger Exes Memorial - Ranger, Texas
Cemeteries in & around Ranger      


ALAMEDA - located 10 miles south of Ranger on FM 571. This cemetery has 
some of the oldest graves in Eastland County dating back to the 1860s.
The Veterans' Memorial Monument installed on Aug. 26, 2009.
Website with list of names


AMES - located south of Ranger near the airport.

ARTHER GRAVE - located 1 1/2 miles northeast of Desdemona in a pasture.

BOLLINGER OR FREEDOM - located 3 miles south of the Lake Leon Bridge.


BULLOCK - located about 3 1/2 miles north of Ranger on Hwy. 717.

COLONY - located at the North-West corner of Hwy 101 and County Rd. #339 
about five miles from Ranger. The land was given by Ben L. Denley about 1908.

COOK - located 8 miles south of Ranger on FM 571.


CROSS ROADS - located about six miles south of Ranger on FM 571.

DABNEY FAMILY - located one mile northwest of Desdemona on FM 570.

DAVIDSON OR TANNER - located on a country road east of Hwy. 16 and
north of Desdemona.

DESDEMONA - located one mile south of Desdemona on Hwy. 16.

ELLISON'S SPRINGS - located east of Gorman on Hwy. 8.

ELM OR MIDWAY - located eight miles southwest of Gorman.

EVANS FAMILY - remote area between FM 571 and Hwy. 16.


EVERGREEN (Ranger City Cemetery) - located in the city of Ranger, 
northwest.

FLATWOOD - located east of Hwy 6 on CR 309 in the Flatwood Community.  
Website with pictures of grave markers

GORMAN & OAKLAWN - located in the city of Gorman.


GREGG FAMILY - located on FM 570 north of Desdemona on a farm.  The 
abandoned Gregg cemetery, like many similar cemeteries needs a group 
to care for it by an occasional clearing.  

HOWARD - north from Desdemona on Hwy. 16 one and 7/10 miles on dirt 
road.

KOKOMO - located by the side of FM 2689 in Kokomo.

MANGUM FAMILY - located north of Kokomo on FM 2689.

McGOUGH - located on Finis Johnson farm 1 1/2 miles NE of Flatwood 
Cemetery.


MERRIMAN - located west of Ranger about 2 miles off I-20.

According to local tradition this site was established as a community 
graveyard about 1873, the year Eastland County was organized and one year
prior to the community of Merriman's selection as county seat.  Although
there are many unmarked gravestones in the cemetery, the earliest recorded
gravestone is that of Orthosias Scarborough (d.1879).  The first legal 
record of the Merriman Cemetery occurred in a deed executed by the Taylor
Charcoal Company conveying two acres for use as a public burial ground to
trustee M. V. Brewer in 1891.

Oil discovered in 1917 on land owned by John H. McCleskey (buried here in
1918) started an oil boom that ultimately threatened the sanctity of the
Merriman Cemetery.  Oil speculators reportedly offered members of the
Merriman Baptist church a large sum of money to lease the cemetery grounds
for drilling.  The congregation, although its association with the cemetery
is uncertain, turned the offer down.  Josie Fox Duncan (d.1940) deed 75
acres to trustees of the cemetery in 1938 to provide an income for its
perpetual care.  The cemetery contains graves of early settlers, veterans
of conflicts from the Civil War to Korea, and victims of a 1916-17 
influenza epidemic.

MOSS CURVE - located off IH-20 about 3 miles out of Ranger toward 
Eastland.

MURRAY - located in Carbon.

MT. ZION (Veale) - located about 10 miles north of Ranger on a hill 
above the intersections of the Caddo and Strawn highways in Stephens 
County. It is said that Ezekiel Jackson McCleskey (1860-1926) gave 
the land for the cemetery. The oldest grave in the cemetery appears 
to be that of M. M. McCluskey who died in 1879.

PILGRIM FAMILY - located on FM 570 between Desdemona & Ranger on farm.


PIONEER (Ranger City Cemetery) - located in the city of Ranger, off 
Hwy 80.   Website with pictures of grave markers

PLEASANT GROVE CEMETARY - located east of Morton Valley; about a mile 
south of Hwy. 101 on the Country Road that is east of Hwy.1852 with
less than 100 graves.

PROVIDENCE OR McGOUGH SPRINGS OR COMFORT - located south shore of Lake
Leon.

SIMPSON - located in the Kokomo Community.

STAFF - located near the Staff Community on Lake Leon.

TRACY OR BREWER - located in a pasture east of FM 2461, south of 
Merriman.

TUDOR OR GOURDNECK - located 11 miles east of Ranger on I-20.

RUSSELL CREEK OR LEMLEY - located east of Ranger on I-20 near Russell
Creek.


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