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AKA Hardy/Atwell/ Weeks

Weirgate, Texas

Directions: In northwestern Newton County at the intersection of Recreation Road 255 and CR 1067 (Week's Chapel Rd). Travel south on CR 1067 to junction with CR 1051, turn east. Cross over Big Cow Creek and turn right at next road (CR 1350). Veer left to cemetery (.2 mile)

Historical Marker: JOSEPH LANE (c. 1771 – c. 1850) WAS THE FIRST BURIAL IN THIS RURAL CEMETERY. HIS SON, GREEN LANE, RESERVED A GRAVE YARD MEASURING 20 BY 20 FEET IN AN 1853 DEED TO KENNETH A.P. HARDY. THE SECOND GRAVE IS FOR JAMES PERSINGER HARDY (1795-1855), WHO SERVED IN CAPT. PRICE’S UNIT OF KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS IN THE ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS IN MAY 1836 AND AS A NEWTON COUNTY COMMISSIONER FROM 1852 UNTIL HIS DEATH. IN AN 1888 DEED, G.J.P. HARDY EXPANDED THE CEMETERY TO TWO ACRES. FEATURES INCLUDE A WROUGHT IRON FENCE, SIX GRAVESTONES WITH NAMES, AND 22 GRAVES WITH IRON ORE STONES MARKING UNKNOWN NAMES. THE LAST BURIAL, FOR T.C. HARDY, DATES FROM 1927. TODAY, THE CEMETERY HONORS EARLY SETTLERS WHO CARVED THEIR LIVES OUT OF THE SURROUNDING FOREST.

Offsite listing of graves on Find A Grave:
Hardy Cemetery at Find A Grave



4/28/2011 K. Cornett submitted the below information.  MANY THANKS!

You requested information for the Hardy Cemetery. We were there today. Two graves w/stones in wrought-iron fence:

Louisa Hardy w/o G.J.P. Hardy b. 1827 d. 1-1-1880
Inscription: She was a kind and affectionate wife. A fond mother and friend to all.

T. G. Hardy, Sr. b. 10-15-184? d. 12-19-1927
Inscription: His toils are past, his work is done, He fought the fight, the victory won


Farther back to the left from the enclosure. Two graves: surname Atwood

1. Nancy Atwood b. illegible d.1880

2. ______ Atwood d. 1881

To the right of enclosure and back a bit is the grave of a child. O. R. weeks son of J. P. & M. V. Weeks

b. 12-1879 d. 12-16-1880 1 year

That's all we got. There were some random stones laying around that may have been used for markers.



 

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