Saving the McCarter - Dunn Cemetery

07/24/2023

Ancestor Spotlight!

Please meet my Great Great Grandfather James Robert Alexander Bates McCarter

He was born the 17 Nov 1852 in Eureka, Navarro County, Texas.

He is the son of Robert A B McCarter and Mariah Louisa Meador. He died the 10 of January 1910 and is buried in Dunn Cemetery with his parents and his 3 wives: Josephine MacDonald, Emily “Emma” Thompson and Georgetta “Etta” Marlow McCarter Greenup.

His children: Robert Martin McCarter, Ida G McCarter, Pearl May McCarter, Carl McCarter, Claude Vernon McCarter, Annette McCarter, Ira James McCarter, George Dewey McCarter, Louella McCarter Byrd, Rhoda McCarter Byrd and George Robert McCarter.

07/24/2023

Ancestor Spotlight ❤️ Let me introduce you to who is buried at Dunn Cemetery.

This is my Great Great Grandmother Georgetta Marlow McCarter Greenup

She was born the 21 of April in 1868 in the state of Illinois. Her parents were William Marlow and Amelia Jane Summers of Jefferson County Illinois and later Navarro County Texas where they bought a local grinding mill.

She married James Robert Alexander Bates McCarter in Corsicana Texas. She was his third wife. All three of his wives and himself are buried in Dunn Cemetery.

His first wife was Josephine MacDonald

2nd wife Emily Thompson

Her and James had 5 children: Ira Aubrey McCarter, George Dewey McCarter, Louella McCarter Byrd, Rhoda Belle McCarter Byrd and George McCarter.

The two George’s one who is in this photo on the back right of his mother did not survive childhood. At the age of 12 George Dewey McCarter was found deceased about 200 feet in the woods near by. He and his younger brother george who also died young are buried in Dunn Cemetery with no stones.

Georgetta was the last person to be buried in Dunn Cemetery in Sept 1926. She died 6 of Sept 1926 5 years to the day after her son Ira James McCarter who died at the age of 29.

Old Scottish Lore is that the last one buried in a graveyard is the keeper of the graveyard. The one that watches over everyone and keeps them safe.

I find it it only fitting if her descendants help save Dunn Cemetery and save it for future generations to visit their ancestors.

Stay tuned for more spotlights of Dunn Cemetary residents.

07/23/2023

07/18/2023

Josephine Asaline Sarah Jane Virginia McCarter Chappell

Oldest child of Robert A B McCarter and Mariah Louisa Meador

She is not buried with her parents and siblings. She is buried in California. Where she settled with her husband and his family. She married William Francis Chappell.

07/18/2023

Ancestor spotlight!

Phelamelia Cleopatra Pandora McCarter Greenup “Pandora”

27 Nov 1857 - 31 Jan 1877
Daughter of Robert Alexander Bates McCarter and Mariah Louisa Meador

Pandora married Joseph Greenup and while giving birth to their first child, a daughter. she and her daughter both died. Pandora was only 20 years old.

Her husband then married her sister Emily Ida McCarter and had 9 children.

When Emily died he married their widowed sister in law Georgetta Marlow McCarter. My 2nd great grandmother.

Emily and Joseph Greenup are buried at Hopewell Cemetery close by. Where their brother William Edgar Alonzo Vines McCarter is buried.

Please help save this graveyard.

07/18/2023

Historical Photos of Eureka, Navarro County Texas
Hopewell School
abt 1918

South of Navarro, Navarro County, Texas, USA

Front row: Rosie Mae Greenup, Vernice Sullivan, Chloe Loraine "Cloie" Capehart, Weldon Goodwin, William Odis Capehart, Frank J. Eggleston, unknown;

second row: Virgie Sullivan, unknown, Violet Sullivan, Minnie Louise Tomlin, Vera Sullivan, Harold Shelton McCarter, Earnest Wade Tomlin;

third row: Henry Hugh Tomlin, Victor Meador McCarter, Olan Sullivan, Frank James Greenup, Charlie Holden McCarter, William Edward Eggleston;

back row: Nannie Elizabeth Ferguson, unknown, Hugh Blair Fouty, Rufus Raymond "Ray" Tomlin, Alvin McCarter, Violet Temple (teacher). From Herbert H. McCarter's Robert A. B. McCarter in Navarro County, Texas and Allied Families

07/18/2023

Robert Alexander Bates McCarter and his wife Mariah Louisa Meador.

Both buried in Dunn Cemetery in Eureka, Navarro County Texas. Along 5 of their 8 children and their children.

Their kids:

Mary Beatress Bernadine McCarter

Josephine Asaline Virginia McCarter - Chappell

Alabama Louisiana Mississippi Evelyna McCarter - Boyd

Philamelia Cleopatra Pandora McCarter - Greenup

Emily Ida Garnett McCarter - Greenup

James Robert Alexander Bates McCarter - My branch

William Edgar Alonzo Vines McCarter

Samuel Bates McCarter

No I did not make these names up. The family lore is he was known to say the only two things he ever gave his children was long names and 100 acres each 😆 which apart let he did both ❤️