1867 - 1967

The Power Cemetery is located near Mansfield, 50 yards from Stephenson-Levy Road north of FM 1187. It is approximately 50 x 50 feet and cannot be seen from the road due to the thick brush surrounding the site. It is completely enclosed by a five-foot cyclone fence erected many years ago by Mr. Jack Beaty of Dallas, the great-grandson of Isaac and Mary Power.

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.

A project of the Mansfield Historical Society P.O. Box 304, Mansfield, TX 76063, first published 1986. Used with permission.

BEATY, Bud - No Dates
GRAHAM, Infant of Henry - No Dates
GRAHAM, Infant of Henry - No Dates
GRIMSLEY, Ben - No Dates
GRIMSLEY, Child of Ben - No Dates
GRIMSLEY, Child of Ben - No Dates
GRIMSLEY, Child of Ben - No Dates
GRIMSLEY, Child of Ben - No Dates
GRIMSLEY, Dock - No Dates
GRIMSLEY, Jim - No Dates
GRIMSLEY, Lucy - No Dates
GRIMSLEY, Melvin - No Dates
POWERS, Charlie - No Dates
POWERS, Mary Jane - Luddy/Ludie - b. 1810 d. 1925?
ROBERTS, Seab - No Dates