Jeffie, there were TOWNLEYs around Jacksboro, TX. Try looking in that area. Sheryl McNeely Shaw sjmcs@earthlink.net > [Original Message] > From: Jeffie Butler <jeffieb@hal-pc.org> > To: <TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 4/26/2004 4:23:29 PM > Subject: Re: [TXWISE-L] Denton-Wise Boundary > > LaDarlaK@aol.com wrote: > > >Forwarded Message: > >Subj:Denton-Wise Boundary > >Date:4/24/2004 2:44:22 PM Central Daylight Time > >From:deanandnell@lakewebs.net > >To:ladarlak@AOL.com > >Sent from the Internet (Details) > > > > > > > >LaDarla > >We have been trying for some time to get Sams-Burnett-Mennerly Cemetery, in > >Denton County, designated as a Historical Cemetery. We are now at the point of > >writing a history of this cemetery. This cemetery is on the Denton-Wise > >County line. At some point in time I heard the boundary was changed and we were > >wondering if at one time this was in Wise County. Seems like the Death > >Certificates of most of the people buried there were issued by Wise County. > >We were told Denton County has no records for this cemetery back past 1911. > >We was told the Denton Courthouse burned in 1878. > >This is a 1.05 acre cemetery which is being destroyed by the livestock > >belonging to the man who owns the land surrounding the cemetery. At one time it set > >on a county road but at some point in time the county commissioners closed > >this road. > >Would it be suitable for you to post this on the Wise County list so we can > >hear from people who have relatives buried there? > >In order to write a history, we have to find some facts. We can't even find > >a record of a cemetery committee ever existing. We asked the Denton Historical > >Commission for information about this cemetery, but evidently they don't have > >any. > >We can use all the help we can get. > >Thanks, Dean and Nell........ > > > > > > > > > Does there happen to be any Townley' in that cemetery. I'm trying to > find where John W. (Zacharia?) and Elizabeth Townley are buried. Jonn > died Nov 11, 1899 in Denton or Wise Co. > I don't know when Elizabeth died it was after Sept.1851, that is when my > gggrandfather Henry Mack was born . They came from Miss. after 1849 when > Elijah was born. > > Jeffie Lou Butler