Details for Dalys/Dailey Community Cemetery
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5225011092
Data
Marker Number | 11092 |
Atlas Number | 5225011092 |
Marker Title | Dalys/Dailey Community Cemetery |
Index Entry | Dailey Community Cemetery |
Address | |
City | |
County | Houston |
UTM Zone | 15 |
UTM Easting | 253949 |
UTM Northing | 3482552 |
Subject Codes | cemetery |
Marker Year | 1991 |
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
Marker Location | 8.6 miles west of Grapeland on FM 227, then .5 mile south on CR 2225 |
Private Property | No |
Marker Condition | In Situ |
Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
Marker Text | 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. |