Inglish Cemetery

This marker has a history of its own. Miss Inez Inglish, granddaughter of Bailey Inglish, unveiled it in 1964 and gave a short history of the cemetery first. The Bonham State Bank, the First National Bank and the cemetery fund paid for the marker, and Mrs. Joe Lyle gave the pole. A descendant of Andrew Daugherty, one of the 1838 victims of what the marker calls an Indian massacre, told how he was killed, and a kinsman gave the benediction. The Reverend Fitzhugh Talbot offered the invocation, and Inglish relatives came from across Texas.

What the plaque says

Inglish Cemetery (1838-1964) County's oldest. Bailey Inglish donated plot near old Fort Inglish (called Bois d'Arc, later Bonham). Pioneers buried here include 1838 Indian massacre victims Andrew Daugherty, Wm. McCarty; 1836 Fannin County colonizers Bailey Inglish and Daniel Rowlett; and Texas Revolution veterans James Tarleton. Fannin County Historical Survey Committee, 1964.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site — 2.7 mi
  The two-story farmhouse west of Bonham that the longtime Speaker of the House built in 1916 and kept as his home, left as he lived in it and open as a museum since 1975.
• Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site — 24 mi
  The small frame house beside the Katy tracks in Denison where Dwight Eisenhower was born in 1890, bought by townspeople in 1946 and given to Texas in 1958.
• Eisenhower State Park — 29 mi
  A bluff-top park on Lake Texoma opened in 1958 on land leased from the Corps of Engineers, in the Red River country of Fort Johnson, Colbert's Ferry and the Butterfield stages.

More markers nearby

• Dr. Daniel Rowlett — steps away
• Vicinity of Fort Inglish — steps away
• Site of Booker T. Washington School — steps away
• Carlton College — 0.5 mi