Arwine Cemetery

Arwine's six acres sat at the center of an Indiana settlement. The Handbook of Texas says Indiana families, among them the Arwines and Jeff Souder's, came after the Civil War and joined Tennessee families such as William L. Hurst's, and the Indiana group founded a church and school in the late 1870s. The community grew slowly until the Rock Island railroad arrived in 1903. Hurst gave land for a depot, but another Texas town already held his name, so the post office was Ormel from 1904 to 1909 before the place was renamed Hurst.

What the plaque says

Arwine Cemetery Pioneer Daniel Arwine (1830-1887) migrated to Texas from Indiana in 1865. A deputy U.S. Marshall, Arwine deeded six acres for a school, church and cemetery in 1879. The schoolhouse served for worship services and gatherings. First burial in this cemetery was Arwine's daughter Katy (d. 1879). The grave of Enoch Sexton (d. 1890), an uncle of Arwin, has the oldest stone. Arwine, his wife and parents are among those buried in the 279 known graves. Relatives and local Boy Scouts have maintained the graveyard. In 1975 the Arwine Cemetery Association was organized. (1977)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 11 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 11 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 13 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 13 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.

More markers nearby

• William Letchworth Hurst — 2.0 mi
• Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — 2.1 mi
• Site of Mosier Valley School — 2.1 mi
• Bedford Cemetery — 2.2 mi