Grapevine Cemetery

One of the men buried here helped lay out the town. The Handbook of Texas says that about 1854 Judge James Tracy Morehead, Archibald Franklin Leonard and Henry L. Suggs met to plan a town and obtain a post office. Morehead proposed the name Grape Vine for the Grapevine Prairie. Leonard, who ran the first store, became the first postmaster. The town incorporated as Grape Vine, two words, on February 12, 1907, and the post office joined them into one word in 1914.

What the plaque says

Grapevine Cemetery Samuel D. Coble (1830-1890), joined later by his brother Allen B. Coble (1836-1906), settled here in the 1850s. In 1878 they sold 4.5 acres of land at this site for use as a public cemetery. The oldest known grave is that of Louisa C. Guiry (d. 1860), who died at the age of 22. Many pioneer settlers of the area are buried here, including Barton H. Starr (1850-1912), elected the first Mayor of Grapevine in 1907, and James Tracy Morehead (1809-1897), who served as the second Judge of Tarrant County. Additional land south of the original tract was acquired in 1925. (1980)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square — 19 mi
  An 1896 courthouse by W. C. Dodson in Denton limestone, pink granite and two sandstones, restored in 2004, now a free county museum on a lawn holding the grave of John B. Denton.
• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 19 mi
  A plow-company warehouse of 1903, identified by the Warren Commission as the building Oswald fired from, now a museum on its sixth and seventh floors above Dealey Plaza.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 19 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.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 19 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church of Grapevine — 0.7 mi
• Grapevine — 0.8 mi
• Thomas Easter Cemetery — 2.1 mi
• Missouri Colony — 2.7 mi