Sunday, June 16, 2024
The Ireland Cemetery Association will hold its annual meeting on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 1 p.m. at the Coryell Museum and Historical Center located at 718 E. Main Street in Gatesville. Interested parties are welcome to attend.
The Ireland Cemetery Association was once the family burial plot for the Daniel Webster (D.W.) Edwards family. The first marked grave is for his one-year-old son, Sterling P. Edwards, dating to Oct. 1873. Several stones indicate other unmarked graves.
Edwards settled in Texas after his civil war regiment, the 11th Missouri infantry, disbanded while in Texas in 1865. The next year, he married the widowed Eliabeth Moore Roberts. In 1871, he purchased land in this area, and his parents, Micajah and Matilda, later moved here from Missouri. Other family members who came include Allison Micajah Edwards, William P. and his wife, Eliza Jane (Faubion) Edwards, and several Faubion family members.
In this community, D.W. and Elizabeth reared her two children and children of their own, including Daniel Lee Edwards, who, in 1920, donated the graveyard to the Ireland Cemetery Association. Early families interred here represent the cultures, occupations, and customs of the community. Family names include Austin, Coston, Davis, Dooley, Faubion, Hampton, Huckabee, Hull, Kight, Laing, Lovelace, Neyland, Oldham, Pearson, Fietzsch, Taylor, Tyler, Walker, Williams, Walsleben, and Wilson.
The Ireland Cemetery is located at 2290 CR 147 in Gatesville.
