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VERNOY FAMILY GRAVES

Christopher Columbus Barrett
C.C. Barrett was the husband of Julia Mariah Vernoy, the daughter of Julia Ann Bast and Thomas Vernoy, the namesake of the cemetery.

Love, Life, Truth
C.C. Barrett
Born Dec. 16, 1850
Died Feb. 10, 1911
Here is one who is sleeping in faith and love
with honor that is treasured in heaven above.

A. J. Bast
Born
Feb 17, 1839
Died
Aug. 6 1900

Various rumors cast him as a gunslinger and/or a robber. Cornelius A. Allen, a distant cousin, told the author in a MAY 2007 interview that A.J. Bast was rumored to be "... a robber, stole a box of gold, buried it on border of the Vernoy property in the pasture land. People would come out with metal detectors to find the metal box. Never found anything like that - dad was with them while they looked."

GRAVES MOVED FROM VERNOY TO OLD SOUTHLAND CEMETERY

Thomas Vernooy

Farewell
Thomas Vernooy
Born Mar. 2, 1823
Died Apr. 15, 1879
Vernooy

In my Father’s house are many mansions
Julia A.
Wife of
Thomas Vernooy
Born
Jan. 26, 1831
Died
Mar. 8, 1902
Vernooy
We trust our loss will be her gain.
And that with Christ she has gone to reign.

Anna Judson Stewart, Mrs. Mary Catharine Florence, Mrs. Effa Matilda Posey, and Alexander Newton Stewart were siblings, the children of Daniel Stewart and Araminta Domer Coleman.

Anna Judson Stewart
Anna Judson Stewart was married to T.J. Dunlap for less than twelve years when she was widowed.

Anna J. Stewart
Jan.7 1845
Mar. 29, 1925
Faithful to her trust even unto death

Mrs. M.C. Florence
Dec. 29, 1840
Feb. 14, 1917
Sheltered and safe from sorrow

Jeffie E. Stewart
Jeffie was the son of Thomas Newton Stewart and Mollie Jane England Stewart. Thomas Newton Stewart was the son of Daniel Morrison Stewart, the grandson of Daniel Stewart and Araminta D. Coleman.

Jeffie E. Stewart
Saviour Lead Me
Jeffie E.
Son of
T.N. & M.J.
STEWART
Born Nov. 3, 1905
Died May 25, 1906
A little time on earth he spent
Till God for him His angel sent.

Homer Dillard Cathey, Cedar Hill TX
Homer D. Cathey was the step-grandson of James Henry Posey and Effa Matilda Stewart. John Harrison Posey, the son of James Henry Posey, married Cordelia Mae Grimmett. She was the daughter of Ann (the mistake "N." in the inscription) Vernetta Derbyshire who first married Jacob Grimmett, and then Bennett Rufus Cathey.

Homer D.
Son of B.R. & N.V. Cathey,
Born Dec.16, 1902
Died Sep.15, 1903
Homeward to the realms of the pure.

James Henry Posey

Effa Stewart Posey

Vallie Irene Posey

Mrs. E.M. Posey
Jan. 27, 1843
Dec. 7, 1916
Faithful to her trust even unto her death.

In my Father’s house are many mansions
James H.
Posey
Born Sep.22, 1824
Died
May 5, 1910.
How desolate our home bereft of thee.

Vallie Irene and Emily Flossie Posey were both daughters of John Harrison Posey and Cordelia Mae Grimmett.

Come unto me
Vallie I.
Dau. Of
J.H. & C.M. Posey
Born Nov. 27, 1903
Died Feb. 6,1906
None knew thee
But to love thee

F. E. Posey
Dau of
J.H. & C.M. Posey
Feb. 12, 1905
Jan 31, 1911
A fairer bud of promise never bloomed.

From the Dallas Morning News - June 26, 1941
Deaths and Funeral Notices
BARRETT - Mrs. Julia, age 85, died at her home in Grand Prairie Wednesday. Survived by daughter, Mrs. Gus Duvall, Grand Prairie, son C.C. Barrett, Grand Prairie, ten grandchildren. Service 4 o'clock Thursday, First Bapist Church, Grand Prairie, the Rev. H.H. Bridges officiating. Burial Vernoy Cemetery. Arrangements with L.O. Turner Funeral Home, Grand Prairie.

These graves were discovered through interviews with Posey and Stewart family members, and through death certificates, which listed Vernoy as place of burial.

Cordelia Mae Grimmitt Posey
b. 24 FEB 1886, TX
m. John Harrison Posey, 8 FEB 1903
d. 30 Jan 1919

Cordelia's daughter Floy was five at the time her mother died and told her daughter how frightened she was that the horses, stuggling up the icy hill, might slip and drop her mother's coffin.

Sidney Florence Posey
Daughter of Cordelia Mae Grimmett and John Harrison Posey.
b. 1910, TX
d. 28 JUN 1925

Alexander Newton Stewart
b. 25 APR 1849, AL
d. 13 MAY 1835

Alexander Newton Stewart was the son of Daniel Stewart and Araminta Domer Coleman, brother to Anna J. Stewart, Mrs. M.C. Florence, and Mrs. E.M. Posey. Of the twelve children born to Daniel and Araminta, Great Uncle Alex was the next to the last to die. He was survived by his younger brother, Joseph Coleman Stewart who died the following year and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Ranger, Eastland County, TX.

After Alexander's mother, Araminta, died in 1878 the family moved to Dallas County, first settling in Mesquite, near Florence Ranch, and then moving to Grand Prairie. Alex became the head of the Stewart family, caring for his elderly father, Daniel, who died in 1909 at the age of 99. It's suspected that the elder Daniel is buried in Vernoy. Great Uncle Alex cared for his widowed sisters, Anna J. Stewart, Mrs. M.C. Florence, and Lucy Rabe. Lucy's daughter Doma had six children. These six lost both their parents within a year and the children were split up and sent to live with different relatives. Lucy came to live with Alex bringing Doma's two youngest children, Mack and Ira, with her. Great Uncle Alex raised Ira, and Ira signed his death certificate when he died.

Monroe Caruthers
b. JAN 1858
d. 6 MAY 1936, Dallas County TX

Monroe Curuthers, Fred Bratton, Tom O'Neal, Ira Wagner, George Parrot, Raymond Johnson, Kosse, Limestone County TX, circa 1930

On the back of this photo is written, "Old Monroe Curuthers. Black man come to Texas with my mother's family the Poseys. He was a born slave and spent his entire life time with our family and is buried at Florence Hill, Dallas County.
(Raymond) Johnson"

According to an unknown granddaughter of James Henry Posey, he "owned slaves and when he came to Texas, he brought a born slave, Monroe Croweathers with him. Monroe lived among our kin for many years."

Catherine Florence Posey, a daughter of James Henry Posey, married Claude Johnson and the family ran the cotton gins in Kosse, Limestone County, Texas. Every year Monroe would go to Kosse to run the gins. Kathryn Johnson Swinnea, a daughter of Florence and Claude remembers Monroe well, saying that he helped raise the nine Johnson children. She told me that he's buried in the family cemetery in Dallas County.

Hattie Clay
b. 3 DEC 1894
d. 20 JUL 1895
"Local history indicates she was a twin.

Daughter of D.E. & M.C. Yarbrough

OTHER GRAVES

Top Missing

June 20, 1895
Happy infant

Robert C.
Son of
I.N. & D.E.
Wommack
Born
Sep. 15, 1902
Died
Apr. 10, 1906
A little time on earth he spent
Till God for Him His angel sent

1915-1916
Daughter of E.N. and M.A. Wammack
Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest. God called thee home. He thought it best.

Our Darling
Melvin M.
Son of Mr. & Mrs. W.D. Rogers.
Born Nov. 2 1904
Died May 5, 1907
Baby
Tis a little grave but Oh have care
For world wide hopes are buried there.

Nancy S. Davis
Born Mar. 26, 1813
Died Dec. 18, 1897
Yet when the body and the tomb are dust, still survives the memory of the just...

Born June 29, 1845
Died Dec. 17, 1898
...the best, the dearest favorite of the shy must taste that for man is born to die.

Born: 1895

Sallie F.
Wife of W.D. Turner
Born June 21, 1868
Died May 18, 1904
As a wife devoted: as a
Mother affectionate;
As a friend ever kind and true.

Vernoy Cemetery Location
Starting at South Carrier Parkway in Grand Prairie, Dallas County, TX, turn east onto East Crosslands Boulevard (there's a Starbucks on the corner). Continue into a gated community. At this point East Crossland turns into Winding Forest Drive. Continue on for awhile and then turn right on Boxwood Drive. Vernoy Cemetery is located between 3736 and 3728 Boxwood Drive. Be careful as the cemetery is wild, and full of poison ivy.

Notes:
Some inscriptions were taken from an enumeration in Grand Prairie, Texas Cemeteries, April 1987, page 291-292.