Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery

Ralph S. Man and Julian B. Feild, the founders the plaque names, arrived in 1857 after selling a Fort Worth sawmill and gristmill, and built the first steam-powered gristmill in North Texas. The town was first spelled Mansfeild for their partnership. During the Civil War the mill supplied meal and flour to the Confederate army; afterward it held federal contracts to supply reservations and army posts in West Texas, New Mexico and Indian Territory. Man's house, begun in 1865, is the oldest standing structure in Mansfield, and he gave the land for the town cemetery.

What the plaque says

Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery This site was first used as a burial ground shortly after the Civil War. The earliest legible gravestone is that of Julia Alice (Boisseau) Man (1843-68). Her husband Ralph S. Man and brother-in-law Julian Feild founded Mansfield (originally spelled Mansfeild). The burial site was deeded to the Mansfield congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1874. Graves include those of Civil War veterans and victims of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic. The oldest section in Mansfield Cemetery, the burial ground serves as a reminder of the area's earliest settlers. (1982)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cedar Ridge Preserve — 12 mi
  A 633-acre Audubon Dallas preserve at the western edge of Dallas County, with about nine miles of trails through prairie, woodland and escarpment hills.
• Tarrant County Courthouse — 17 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.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 18 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.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 18 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.

More markers nearby

• John C. Collier Home — 0.8 mi
• First Baptist Church of Kennedale — 7.4 mi
• Everman Cemetery — 8.5 mi
• Tate Cemetery — 8.7 mi