I really want to Thank everyone who sent me information about th Old City Cemetery. I am surprised more people do not know where it is. We walked the entire cemetery. I did not find my Benton Tidwell, that I have been looking for, but Winona Harper that went with me found her great grandparents James and Roxie Hornbuckle Lynn and Roxie's father W. S. Hornbuckle is buried beside them. It makes you sad that so many tombstones have been vandalized. There was a huge, and I mean a huge limb that had fallen from the large tree in the center of the cemetery. We could not move it, but we did check for tombstones covered by it. There was a pack of dogs there when we arrived and I was afraid they might not allow us to look around, but they moved to the side as we walked around looking around. There are several cement vaults, I guess you would call them, we could find no name and several of them have either been broken into or age has destroyed them. They are about the size and shape of a casket. Does anyone know if the people are buried above ground inside the vault, or were they buried in the ground like usual and these "vaults" placed over their gravesite? It was very peaceful and quiet there and my two children who went with me and are usually bored to tears to go with me to all the cemeteries I visit, did not seem to mind this one too much. I am sorry to say I made them feel like they had to go. It was my 65th birthday and Jimmy and Robin said they would do something with me for my birthday. I said "Ok, let's go to this cemetery I have been going to." My son said "Mom we meant do something with live people, not dead ones!" But they went anyway. We did go on to the Union Grove Cemetery where I knew that several Tidwell, Nowell and Higgs family members are buried. But, alas, no Benton Tidwell. Winona's grandparents, Clint and Sallie May Lynn Tidwell are buried there. Clint and my great grandfather William Virge Tidwell were brothers. Their parents Benton and Nancy Parlee Higgs Tidwell, in the 1900 census of Paris, Texas, they lived in town with their daughter and her husband. In 1906 Benton died on Christmas day, Benton died, but I cannot find where he is buried. One family source says he was in Haskell County visiting his son Charlie, when he became ill and died. But am unable to prove this. In 1923 Nancy Parlee Higgs Tidwell was living with her son Thomas in Dickens county when she died but cannot find where she is buried either. Once again to everyone on the information that everyone sent to the mailing list, it definitely made my trip easier when I had such a short time for my visit. Shirley Grant Farrell in Henrietta, Texas