Power Cemetery
Mansfield, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
Isaac and Mary Jane Power were early Texas pioneers who settled in Tarrant County and are buried in Power Cemetery. Isaac died in 1866 and he was the first known burial in the family cemetery. Mary Jane died in 1925 at the age of 115 and was the last person buried in the family cemetery. According to newspapers of the day, she was the oldest woman in Texas at the time of her death. She died in the cabin high on the prairie that had been her only home for 58 years. She was placed in a simple wooden box and carried to the family cemetery in a wagon. There she was laid to rest with other family members.
Power Cemetery contains the graves of members of the Power, Grimsley, Graham, Beaty, and Roberts families --all descendants of Isaac and Mary Jane Power. Six of the graves are of infants and children, a grim reminder of the painful risks associated with the birth and care of children in the days before modern medicine. The cemetery is a monument to the courage and determination of the pioneers who brought civilization to the wilderness of early Tarrant County, Texas.
Isaac and Mary Jane Power were early Texas pioneers who settled in Tarrant County and are buried in Power Cemetery. Isaac died in 1866 and he was the first known burial in the family cemetery. Mary Jane died in 1925 at the age of 115 and was the last person buried in the family cemetery. According to newspapers of the day, she was the oldest woman in Texas at the time of her death. She died in the cabin high on the prairie that had been her only home for 58 years. She was placed in a simple wooden box and carried to the family cemetery in a wagon. There she was laid to rest with other family members.
Power Cemetery contains the graves of members of the Power, Grimsley, Graham, Beaty, and Roberts families --all descendants of Isaac and Mary Jane Power. Six of the graves are of infants and children, a grim reminder of the painful risks associated with the birth and care of children in the days before modern medicine. The cemetery is a monument to the courage and determination of the pioneers who brought civilization to the wilderness of early Tarrant County, Texas.
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- Added: 10 Apr 2008
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2256773
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