English Cemetery

English Cemetery
Decker Prairie, Texas

Turn on Hardin Store Road from FM 149 at Decker Prairie, turn right on Virgie, left on Community Road.
Cemetery is 1.1 miles on left. This information was cpied because so many Magnolia people are buried here.
Copied by Celeste Graves and Kaye Applewhite February 19, 1986.
Reprinted with permission by Vanessa Burzynski


 
 
Name Born Died Comments
Willie Ray Ardoin 1/14/1950 8/23/1970
Octavia Ware Blacksher 1909 4/7/1970
Andrew E. Butler 4/25/1911 4/3/1948 Govt Marker Texas TEC 4 1315 Engr Cons Bn WWII
Bertha L. Campbell 5/23/1919 11/1/1977 "Mother"
Sammie Taylor Carrington 2/6/1950 11/27/1980 "We will meet again"
Henry Chaney 8/22/1941 56 yrs 2 mos 17 days
Otto Chaney 10/6/1908 8/26/1978 Lockwood Funeral Home
Otis Chaney 1942 2/22/1972 Aged 30 years Sheffield Funeral Home
Lelia Crowley 8/12/1912 2/13/1972 "Rest in Peace"
_lo_d Daniels 1/20/1906 ?/5/197? "Rest in Peace"
Pricilla Daniels 1951
Cherry Davis 5/1/1923 2/7/1972
Eugene Green 2/6/1986 age 92 yrs Carl Barnes Funeral Home Houston, Tx
Nilos Green 8/25/1895 2/17/1952
James B. Green 3/16/1921 11/23/1963 Govt Marker Texas TEC 5 US Army WWII
Leory Chaney 4/12/1928 10/31/1982 Govt Marker
Edwards Collins no dates Double Master Stone
Mollie Collins 1871 1944
Lewis Hawthorne 5/10/1894 8/26/1957 Govt Marker Pvt 3 Recruit Co. WWI
Hattie Hicks 1893 1964 "Aunt"
Robert L. Henderson 2/4/1944 2/15/1972
Jimmie Henderson Jr. 9/29/1939 7/12/1973
Baby Kimberly Hadnot 4/8/1984 4/11/1984 Carl Barnes Funeral Home Houston, Tx
Daisy Mae Holiday 10/19/1943 3/14/1969
Mrs. Bertha Howard 1/11/1938 Age 29 yrs 5 mos 4 days Fairchild Funeral Service Houston, Tx
Sunita Humphrey 6/27/1976 6/4/1981 Carl Barnes Funeral Home Houston, Tx
Rosie Hawkins McKee 4/13/1913 4/19/1967 Double Marker "Mother"
Elton Louis Humphrey 2/26/1939 3/26/968 "Son" "Entrusted in God's Eternal Care"
Carolyn Jean Johnson 11/1/1944 6/28/1946 Age 18 mos
Minnie Bell Horton 9/3/1915 11/11/1982
Charles Horton 1/2/1887 3/10/1963 Govt Marker Tx Pfc US Army WWWI
Mr. Johnson 197?
Hattie Lee Johnson 1920 1982 "Dear Mother"
Eddie Johnson 1908 1973 Klein Funeral Home Tomball, Tx
Mattie Johnson 3/10/1885 ?? balance of stone buried
Bennie Johnson 1876 4/22/1955
Pinkey Mayes 5/28/1906 7/12/1984 "Gone but not forgotten"
Jacob Powells ?? 1975 Double Marker
Lillie Powells 1909 1976
Zack Powell 1/12/1878 1/12/1959
Robert Perkins Jr. 1/30/1958 "Baby" 1 mo. 12 days J. S. Lewis Undertakers Houston, Tx
Mary W. Reed 3/12/1933 12/7/1977 "Our Beloved Mother"
Dentmon Shation 1884 11/1936 age 63
Becky A. Smith 9/25/1874 1/23/1970 Beside Becky Smith is a large head and foot stone 
with nothing inscribed
Riley J. Spurlock 2/24/1986 age 27 Carl Barnes Funeral Home Houston, Tx
Carnelia L. Stewart 5/1/1897 5/20/1975
Amanda Thomas 6/18/1949 Age 65 "At Rest"
Johnie Thomas 11/22/1893 10/23/1955 Govt Marker Texas Pvt Co. A. 342 SVC Bn QMC WWI
Bro. George Warren 2/18/1961 Age 61 yrs Pruitt-Pruitt Funeral Home Houston, Tx
Beatrice Ware 10/27/1912 11/3/1959 Double Marker
Oliver W. Thompson 2/15/1884 3/22/1962
Mr. Ware 7/31/1959 Age 50 yrs. Ross Mortuary Houston, Texas
George Ware 5/22/1882 2/5/1970
Warren Ware 1894 11/15/1955 Age 61 yrs 11 mos 22 days Sheffield Funeral Home
Rev. W. J. Ware Warren and W. J. are possibly the same person
Geo. Ware 1/9/1903 7/18/1957 "At Rest"
Essie Ware 7/1886 9/2/1956 "At Rest"
Frit Ware 4/14/1939 Age 66
Jessie Walter 9/11/1938 Age 57
John Walker 6/28/1890 4/14/1944 Govt Marker Texas Pvt 857 Trans Corps 
Cleola Wright 9/14/1954 9/19/1980
Johnny Wright 1927 1961
Earnest Wright 7/12/1921 3/6/1984 "Husband" "Love Always Goodnight Honey"
Fannie Mae 10/5/1915 Double Marker
Henry Wright 10/1859 12/1946 Age 88
Benjemine James Wright 1/13/1963
Family of L. Wright no dates
John Wright 9/29/1976
Kenneth Wayne Wright 1956 1958
Pearl L. Wright 4/5/1896 7/26/1974 "Mother"
Savannah Wright 4/7/1895 5/31/1940 "Mother"
Jimmie Wright 1/30/1923 1/14/1948
Baby Laura ?? 3/3/1960 Age 4 mos. Huckaby Funeral Service Houston, Texas
Martha Mae Williams 11/15/1974
No name legible 8/27/1918 2/6/1926
 
There were some 30 to 40 graves that were either not marked or the funeral home marker was not legible.
There were also several small graves with dishes and toys on top of them but were unmarked.