Marker Inscription
In 1861 Benjamin Patton Ayres (ca. 1801-62) and his wife, Emily (Cozart) (ca. 1811-63), bought a 320-acre farm and set aside two acres on this hillside as a family cemetery. Ayres, who had served as the second Tarrant County clerk and who helped organize the Fort Worth First Christian Church, was the first buried here. An unknown number of graves, which lie outside the fenced family plot, include victims of spring fevers and Trinity River floods. None of their fieldstones have survived, but the Ayres Cemetery remains as a symbol of the area's early settlers. (1984)
About this site
Ayres Cemetery is a historical marker in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, dedicated in 1984. It is one of 354 historical markers documented in Tarrant County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 458 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.7479, -97.2911 near Fort Worth. The nearest cataloged historic site is Sanderson, William Alfred (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Riverside Public School, Administration Building, and I.M. Terrell High School.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5439000253. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
