Dalys/Dailey Community Cemetery

The Handbook of Texas, which spells the name Daly's, says the farming community off Farm Road 227, eight miles west of Grapeland, was established around 1850 and named for an early settler, Thomas R. Dailey. Its Missionary Baptist church was organized on July 1, 1853, and a first school followed a few years later. A post office ran from 1876 until 1907. By 1885 about sixty people lived here, with two steam gristmills and gins, a general store, a church and a district school. By the mid-1930s only a church and some houses remained.

What the plaque says

Dalys/Dailey Community Cemetery The pioneer Daily family and others founded the Dalys Community in the 1850s. When Ethalinda Meriwether, wife of Dr. Francis Lewis Meriwether, died in 1876, Charles B. Dailey and his sister and brother-in-law, Emma Catherine and James A. Hill, gave land for a community cemetery. In addition to the families of the Dalys/Dailey Community, the cemetery also served residents of nearby Reynard. Those interred here include veterans of the Civil War, World War I and World War II. The name was officially changed to Dailey Community Cemetery in 1981. (1991)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Railroad Excursion Train — 20 mi
  A round trip of about 25 miles of track between the Palestine and Rusk depots through the Piney Woods, on a line built by prison labor and reopened as a tourist railroad in 1976.
• Fort Boggy State Park — 29 mi
  A 1,847-acre park in Leon County named for a settlers' palisade of 1840, with a 15-acre lake, short trails and the story of Tennessee farmers, the Keechi and a Ranger captain.

More markers nearby

• Hall Cemetery — 4.2 mi
• Cedar Branch Community and Church — 4.9 mi
• Wesley Chapel Church and Cemetery — 7.3 mi
• City of Grapeland — 8.1 mi