Click Here to go back to the Wise County TXGenWeb Home Page
(Click Here to go to Listing & Pictures of All Wise County Headstones)

Kerry Clower documented and took photos of this cemetery in April 2025

County Road 1380, South of Alvord

Location: From the Hwy 81/287 bypass south of Alvord, take the Hubbard Street exit.  Turn south on Hubbard Street for 1.2 miles to the intersection of CR 1380.  Turn left on CR 1380 and travel 1.6 miles to an oil field gate/cattleguard on the right.  The well is Clyde M. Smith 1H and the gate is kept locked, so do not enter without permission of the landowner.  Philip Smith is the current owner.  About 150 yards before the gate, you should have passed a sign on the right reading “Former Site of Elm School”. The cemetery is located out in the field about 150 yards east from the oil well road and about 30 yards northwest from the school sign. 

Condition: The graves are under a large post oak tree and the area is unfenced. It was overgrown and the two headstones were toppled and scattered when I found them on April 21, 2025.  There are at least three other graves marked only with field stones.  A grandson of Rosa McDonald Smith had told him that at one time there may have been ten or more additional graves, but I could find no signs of them on my visit.  Strangely, the last name on the two stones was spelled differently.  

Burials:

1.    McKneely, T. G.             Died June 17, 1882, Aged 63 years (Stone has Masonic emblem and engraved “HERE REST AN HONEST MAN”)

2.    McNeeley, Margaret    (born) 1847, Died July 17, 1888 (Engraved with “Her Life was hid with God”)

3.    Three marked, but unknown graves