This website is dedicated to the interments and history of Clark Cemetery located in Parker County, Texas about 9 miles north of Weatherford. For any other information related to Clark Cemetery, including opening a new grave, financial donation, newsletters, etc… please go to the official site for Clark Cemetery.
Parker County, Texas was established in 1855. At that time the area surrounding Clark Cemetery was undeveloped and swarming with Kiowa and Comanche. You had to be a brave character to want to settle in this territory. They viewed women and children as easy targets. Often the women would have to disguise themselves as men just to make the trip to the outhouse. The danger became even greater in 1861 once the Civil War began. Many women, like the courageous Ann Barker, were left at home alone to take care of their children while their husbands went off to fight in the war.
It was also a time before modern medicine where even something as simple as being caught in a rainstorm, like Lewis McDonald, could lead to death. Or an innocent drink of water out of the nearby creek could be the beginnings of a cemetery.
Despite these dangers many pioneer families came to the area anyway: James Jasper Barker, James Edward “Jim” Clark, George Lee Dobbs, John William Godfrey, Lewis P. McDonald, Judge Edwin LeRoy Patton, and William Henry Ward just to name a few. They farmed the land. They built their churches. They built their schools. They built their homes. But what they did was build a community that would endure for over 150 years.
There are over 450 known interments and since this is a private cemetery most of the people buried in Clark Cemetery can be connected through either blood or marriage. All interments have been listed and memorial pages added. Females are listed by the last name as it appears on the headstone, which is usually the married name. Maiden names are in parenthesis.
This list and family connections were compiled using records found at the Weatherford Public Library, information from findagrave.com, information from death certificates, obituaries, family stories and from walking the cemetery and photographing headstones.
Work on locating family photos and stories will continue but memorial pages cannot be completed without the help of the family members of those buried at Clark Cemetery. Your stories and pictures are needed. If you are a sibling, child, parent, or cousin of someone buried at Clark Cemetery then we want to hear from you. Feedback is encouraged, especially if you find errors or have pictures and stories to share. Let’s keep the history alive.
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Parker County, Texas was established in 1855. At that time the area surrounding Clark Cemetery was undeveloped and swarming with Kiowa and Comanche. You had to be a brave character to want to settle in this territory. They viewed women and children as easy targets. Often the women would have to disguise themselves as men just to make the trip to the outhouse. The danger became even greater in 1861 once the Civil War began. Many women, like the courageous Ann Barker, were left at home alone to take care of their children while their husbands went off to fight in the war.
It was also a time before modern medicine where even something as simple as being caught in a rainstorm, like Lewis McDonald, could lead to death. Or an innocent drink of water out of the nearby creek could be the beginnings of a cemetery.
Despite these dangers many pioneer families came to the area anyway: James Jasper Barker, James Edward “Jim” Clark, George Lee Dobbs, John William Godfrey, Lewis P. McDonald, Judge Edwin LeRoy Patton, and William Henry Ward just to name a few. They farmed the land. They built their churches. They built their schools. They built their homes. But what they did was build a community that would endure for over 150 years.
There are over 450 known interments and since this is a private cemetery most of the people buried in Clark Cemetery can be connected through either blood or marriage. All interments have been listed and memorial pages added. Females are listed by the last name as it appears on the headstone, which is usually the married name. Maiden names are in parenthesis.
This list and family connections were compiled using records found at the Weatherford Public Library, information from findagrave.com, information from death certificates, obituaries, family stories and from walking the cemetery and photographing headstones.
Work on locating family photos and stories will continue but memorial pages cannot be completed without the help of the family members of those buried at Clark Cemetery. Your stories and pictures are needed. If you are a sibling, child, parent, or cousin of someone buried at Clark Cemetery then we want to hear from you. Feedback is encouraged, especially if you find errors or have pictures and stories to share. Let’s keep the history alive.
DON'T FORGET TO JOIN OUR GROUP ON FACEBOOK !!!