Everman Cemetery

Before there was an Everman, the Handbook of Texas says, Kiowa-Apache and Wichita people lived in this area until Anglo-American settlers arrived in the early to middle 1850s. A hamlet called Oak Grove stood nearby for several years. The town itself took shape when the International-Great Northern Railroad arrived in 1904, and it was named for John W. Everman, an engineer for the line. A post office opened in 1905, and in 1906 the community set up its own school district. Everman adopted a council-manager form of city government in 1986.

What the plaque says

Everman Cemetery Settlement of the area, first called Enon, began about 1847. After the railroad was built in 1903, the townspeople relocated to be near the rail line and renamed their community Everman for a railroad official. This Cemetery was established in 1882 by R.E. Morris, whose wife Rosa (Josie) Vaughn, died on May 16 and was interred on the family farm. Called the Morris Graveyard for many years, the cemetery was eventually renamed to reflect its use as a community burial ground. The original Morris Graveyard portion is in the southwest section of the cemetery. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 9.5 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 — 9.7 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 — 9.9 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.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 12 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.

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