Mt. Comfort Cemetery
Cherokee County, Texas
From the Pages originally hosted By Larry Cribbs at Cribbs 101
New format by Brenda and David Wooddell, Sr.
Mt. Comfort Cemetery is located east of Maydelle, Texas. From the intersection of Hwy 84 & FM 2138 in Maydell go east .5 miles to CR 1708. Turn left on CR 1708 & go .1 miles. The cemtery is on the left side of the road. There are many unreadable Funeral Home Marker & stones as well as several graves marked with stones only. The cemetery was updated Mar. 28, 2004 by David & Brenda Wooddell. Names marked with * were not found in 2004.
Acker, Colonel Nelson 1-22-1906 d. 7-11-1992 &
Acker, I. Pauline Gentry 7-1-1918 d._____
Alston, Denise M. 9-3-1910 d. 9-30-1992
Ball, Eliza (no dates) *
Ball, J. Tom 7-20-1920 d. 1-2-1995 & (TSgt US Army Air Corps WWII)
Ball, Louise Odom 1-14-1925 d.____ (married 3-3-1942)
Ballew, Claude Alonzo 8-7-1874 d. 12-13-1966
Ballew, Joseph 11-3-1853 d. 8-1-1891
Ballew, Mary 1850 d. 12-3-1917 (wife of Joesph)
Ballew, Thos. L 8-26-1888 7-17-1918 (WOW) (Corp 154th Co-TG)
Ballew, Mary L. 4-6-1830 d. 2-24-1912 [wife of Thos. L.(Sr.)]
Ballew, Thos. L. 9-16-1823 d.11-1-1883
Ballew, E. Woodrow (Bert) 10-23-1926 d. 9-30-1981 &
Ballew, Hazel C. 9-20-1924 d._____ (Married 11-26-1971)
Batten, Samuel R. 1869-1933
Batten, Molly 1872-1938
Batten, Samuel Robert 9-9-1911 d. 5-23-1978 & (TEC5 US Army WWII)
Batten, Nellie G. 12-23-1917 d.______
Battreall, Alma O. 1-23-1921 d. 8-23-1990
Beam, Travis C. 8-25-1911 d. 12-30-1994 &
Beam, Maude 4-21-1919 d._____ (married Apr. 13, 1938)
Benge, Rufus Carlton 12-24-1919 d. 8-19-1983 (Pfc US Army WWII)
Benge, Guy 9-22-1906 d. 10-5-1989 &
Benge, Ora 3-26-1910 d. 4-18-1985
Benge, Maurice V. 3-23-1928 d. 2-15-1992 &
Benge, Patricia A. 3-31-1931 d._____ (married 7-24-1948)
Bennett, Ethel 7-2-1900 d. 10-31-1918 (adopted daughter of Dr. & Mrs. L.E. Moore) *
Berry, A. L. (Pettie) 5-10-1916 d. 5-14-1977 &
Berry, Vivian 6-21-1921 d. 11-29-1996 (married 7-14-1938)(children Jerry, Eddie, Edith)
Boatman, James O. 12-26-1908 d. 12-23-1988 &
Boatman, Mary Magdalene 12-24-1909 d. 4-28-1990
Breaux, Oran 4-10-1913 d. 2-11-2001 &
Breaux, Joy Bomer 10-9-1923 d. 2-7-1992
Brown, Wilmer Clyde (Bill) 11-29-1916 d. 6-17-1999 & (Cpl US Army WWII)
Brown, Zenita Pearl 6-14-1922 d. 8-21-2002 (married 11-2-1961)
Carlisle, Ben Wilson 2-26-2926 d. 6-21-1999 & (Cox US Navy WWII)
Carlisle, Pauline G. 12-20-1926 d._____ (married 3-9-1946)(OES)
Chandler, Howard T. 8-10-1920 d. 4-19-1990 &
Chandler, Sally H. 7-23-1925 d._____
Clements, Morris L. 1915-1961
Coker, Carmon Derworl 4-10-1930 d. 4-24-1930 (son of Sidney & Elbert)
Coker, Jerome Curtis 4-12-1920 d. 7-21-1985
Crawford, Carlton P. 11-25-1912 d. 1-6-1965 & (Mason)
Crawford, Ruth I. 11-29-1914 d. 1-1-2001 (OES) (married 2-17-1934)
Crawford, Leo Vaughn 8-1-1935 d. 6-10-1992
Cullen, James 8-15-1907 d. 9-18-1988
Dean, John H. 11-27-1927 d. 5-24-1994 &
Dean, Barbara "Janie" 12-10-1934 d._____
Dickey, Rev. J.R. 1891 d. _____ &
Dickey, Ora L. 1892-1968 (10-4-1909)
Dosser, Danny Wayne 12-3-1956 d. 4-10-1986
Dosser, Arnold (Mutt) 8-15-1922 d._____
Dosser, La Wanda Ray 3-2-1928 d._____
Dover, George Kenley 11-29-1943 d. 9-13-1998 & (SP5 US Army)
Dover, Margaret Sue 1-4-1949 d._____ (married 10-5-1968)
Durrett, Carl L. 10-3-1906 d. 5-3-1971 &
Durrett, Kate L. 7-21-1908 d._____ (married 7-18-1925)
Erwin, Cecil Custer 9-27-1929 d._____ &
Erwin, June Glidden 6-6-1933 d.______ (married 9-16-1950)
Ferguson, Mitchelle "Mitch" 5-4-1966 d. 2-20-1997
Ferguson, Olan M. (Ferg) 1-2-1913 d. 11-14-1981 &
Ferguson, Dorothy 8-18-1915 d. 5-26-1994 (married 10-17-1935)
French, Benjamin Leroy 8-27-1917 d. 10-10-1987 &
French, Ruth Clark 4-26-1919 d. 8-1-2001
French, Joe Elton 11-20-1935 d._____ (Mason) &
French, Gladys Emadean 6-1-1938 d._____ (married 2-9-1957)
French, Richard E. 7-17-1912 d. 4-21-1982 &
French, Edith P. 8-21-1914 d. 2-26-1998 (married 6-16-1934)
Gabbard, Jesse 1949-1002 (FHM)
George, Minnie Dora 7-20-1891 d. 9-6-1939 (wife of Allen Gale)
George, Allen Gale 9-4-1879 d. 4-6-1948
George, Aaron B. 12-3-1920 d. 9-10-1984 (Pvt US Army WWII)
George, James Abram 11-9-1924 d. 10-13-1996 & (F1 US Navy WWII)
George, Fay 9-26-1930 d._____ (married 4-4-1948)
Glidden, Henry C. 8-23-1901 d. 10-27-1966 & "Pappy"
Glidden, Vera Pryor 12-11-1899 d. 5-11-1977 "Mammy"
Glidden, Howard H. 8-23-1901 d. 5-29-1968 & (Dad)
Glidden, Jewel 12-17-1902 d. 3-11-1982 (Mother)
Glidden Sallie C. 1867-1942 &
Glidden, E.L. 1864-1951
Glidden, Homer Howard 3-16-1926 d. 3-24-1985 (EM3 US Navy WWII)
Glidden, Robert J. 8-17-1894 d. 7-20-1975 & (Pfc US Army WWI)
Glidden, Johnnie E. 2-6-1904 d. 11-20-1974 (married 5-20-1922)
Gildden, Carroll 1-21-1935 d. 5-8-1986 &
Glidden, Peggye Marsh 10-10-1943 d.____ (married 12-24-1962)
Graham, R. Leon 1916-1986 &
Graham, Winifred C. 1917-____
Graham, Jerry Lavon 9-24-1938 d. 1-25-1999 & (A1C US Air Force)
Graham, Frances K. 3-2-1938 d._____
Gray, James D. 9-3-1959 d. 4-3-1999
Gray, Manuel W. 6-26-1917 d. 11-8-1988 &
Gray, Dixie L. 8-31-1933 d._____
Hassell, Alfred A. 1887-1959 &
Hassell, Stella N. 1892-1895
Hicks, Dorthy Lee 12-26-1930 d. 4-6-1968
Hopper, Billy Jean 1-31-1964 d. 9-16-1989
Hopper, Joe D. 12-10-1923 d. 1-24-1990 &
Hopper, Della M. 4-19-1931 d._____
Hudson, Nettie Ellena 10-30-1875 d. 12-27-1962 *
Ivy, Walter Travis 1-27-1947 d. 11-13-2000
Ivy, Charles F. 4-17-1910 d. 8-13-1975 &
Ivy, V. Pauline 12-30-1917 d._____ (married 11-1-1934)
Ivy, Pat 1-4-1952 d._____ &
Ivy, Linda 12-29-1969 d._____
Jackson, Claudie Wesley 4-19-1923 d. 12-19-1986 & (S1 US Navy WWII)
Jackson, Addie Lee 4-18-1926 d. 12-18-1984 (married 8-21-1944)
Johnson, Monday Melissa 1-22-1970 d. 7-16-2003 (FHM)
Johnson, Allie Mae 1-8-1910 d.2-17-1991
Kennedy, Leo Daniel 4-14-1896 d. 11-24-1972
Killion, Netttie 7-6-1876 d. 1-6-1965 &
Killion, W.G. 6-10-1867 d. 12-12-1952
Killion, Doyle C. 8-21-1903 d. 6-20-1918 &
Killion, Bertha Lee 2-4-1893 d. 10-12-1967
Killion, Elmer (Dude) 7-29-1910 d. 1-1-2004 (FHM)
King, Makyia Mercedes 2-25-1994 d. 1-7-1998
King, James H. 1-23-1929 d. 8-17-1990 &
King, Mattie L. 5-26-1928 d._____ (married 6-24-1950)
Koonce, Reuel W. 6-12-1909 d. 2-17-1977 &
Koonce, Evelyn N. 1-5-1907 d. 12-10-1999
Loper, Baby Joe 11-1934 d. 9-1935
Loper, J. C. 3-24-1924 d._____ &
Loper, Marie 3-30-1923 d. 3-25-1988 (married 1-18-1946)
Landrum, Wm Wiley February 1883 d. 4-16-1947 *
McCauley, James Hugh 9-14-1921 d. 4-30-1988 & (Pvt US Army WWII)
McCauley, Sarah Virginia 12-10-1023 d. 7-16-1991
McCrimmen, Fannie 1844 d. 8-24-1889 (age 45 years)
McFadden, G. W. 9-14-1934 d.______ &
McFadden, Patricia A. 8-4-1941 d. 12-13-2000
McLen, David Ell 10-7-1886 d. 11-27-1933
McLen, Myrtie Mae 9-25-1886 d. 11-3-1986
Milligan, Murline Alston 8-10-1929 d. 3-14-2000
Moore, Cullen Porter (B.B.) 5-13-1913 d. 5-6-1966
Moore, Gordon B. 2-22-1934 d. 1-17-1935
Moore Dr. Ed 1872-1948 &
Moore, May 1880-1948
Moore, Joe E. 1900-1960 &
Moore, Ora B. 1903-1995
Moore, R. Barto 2-20-1911 d. 9-27-1912 (son of L.E. & A.M.)
Moore, John M. 1-4-1917 d. 12-17-1995 (Sgt US Army Air Corps WWII)
Moore, Eddie Doyle Sr. 9-26-1916 d. 8-13-1998 & (Mason)
Moore, Johnnie Dell "Blue" 7-16-1912 d. 1-25-2001 (married 7-15-1941_
Moore, L. E. 10-30-1901 d. 5-19-1979 & (mason)
Moore, Jeanette 7-26-1907 d. 5-30-1985 (married 11-25-1925)
Murphy, Brian Scott 10-28-1980 d. 10-30-1980
Newman, Allen 9-20-1892 d. 10-26-1960 &
Newman, Myrtie 1-11-1897 d. 2-1-1969 (married 5-1-1920)
Newman, Texa (no dates)
Newman, Wade 1869 d. 3-30-1946
Newman, Hut (no dates)
Norwood, C. K. "Knox" 1849-1930 (Sheriff of Cherokee Co. 1906-1910)
Odom, Gilbert Forrest 8-3-1890 d. 2-12-1972 & (Pvt Co L 359 Infantry WWI)
Odom, Beulah P. 5-4-1904 d. 8-26-1968 (married 11-9-1920)
Odom, James R. 11-22-1868 d. 11-18-1959
Odom, Permelia 1-3-1838 d. 6-13-1924 (OES)
Odom, T.H. 6-30-1830 d. 2-23-1913 (Mason)
Odom, T.C. 1878-1912
Odom, Mrs. Velma 1882 d.12-31-1954
Odom, James F. 5-10-1830 d. 7-27-1901
Odom, Mrs. F.J. 1-31-1831 d. 1-16-1904
Odom, Hettie 1900-1911
Phillips, infant birth & death 9-11-1937 (child of X X Coy) *
Pryor, Deborah Ann 11-11-1945 d. 12-29-1994
Pryor, Calvin 9-23-1934 d. 9-4-1990
Pryor, Loretta 9-6-1947 d._____
Pryor, Annie 6-26-1906 d. 8-24-1982
Pryor, J. R. (Jack) 8-22-1908 d. 12-21-1982
Pryor, Nelda Dianne 12-26-1954 d. 7-5-1999
Reynolds, Beatrice V. "Bee" 8-31-1917 d. 10-7-1997 (dau. Richard & Katie Wortham)(on stone with Marvin Wortham)
Roach, Tommy Ray 7-6-1941 d. 9-3-1959
Roach, Thomas J. 12-12-1884 d. 3-30-1957 &
Roach, Kate 6-3-1885 d. 8-3-1985
Roach, Jim 12-18-1888 d. 7-9-1937 &
Roach, Flossie B. 1-11-1889 d. 1-26-1968
Roach, James R. 9-14-1918 d. 2-8-1974 &
Roach, Jaunita 4-29-1921 d. 2-2-1994
Roach, James Thomas "J. T." 5-10-1915 d. 10-18-2000 &
Roach, Mildred S. 4-28-1919 d. 7-6-1997 (married 12-24-1938)
Roads, Jack (no dates)
Roberts, J. B. 12-17-1923 d._____ &
Roberts, Susie M. 10-7-1921 d. 6-30-2002
Ross, Tecomsy L.B. 7-12-1925 d. 1-8-1969 (Pfc US Marine Corps WWII)
Ross, Horace E. 1878-1951 (Father)
Ross, Fannie Noland 12-8-1877 d. 1918 (married Horace E. "Bud" 12-24-1894) (Mother)
Ross, Fannie 1878-1918
Ross, H. L. 1-12-1924 d. 12-15-1977 (Sgt US Army WWII)
Ross, Effie Lee 7-3-1891 d. 12-31-1985
Ross, Christeen 4-16-1907 d. 3-21-1972
Ross, Esther 3-7-1911 d. 10-28-1983
Scogin, Andrew J. 10-19-1903 d._____ &
Scogin, Nora E. 8-27-1903 d. 9-14-1974 (married 12-24-19240
Sherman, Paul L. 8-29-1910 d. 7-14-1942
Sherman, R.C. 1877-1949 &
Sherman, Maud 2-14-1883 d. 4-30-1919
Sherman, F.E. 3-8-1875 d. 5-29-1935 &
Sherman, Catherine 2-6-1883 d. 12-23-1983
Sherman, Ernest L. 5-1-1894 d. 8-22-1923
Sherman, Bettie Lenora 12-24-1875 d. 1-15-1948 &
Sherman, James Stephen 10-4-1869 d. 11-27-1938
Sherman, M.E. 7-26-1866 d. 2-26-1927
Sherman, Dana Bell 1-8-1874 d. 12-31-1878
Sherman, Girtie N. 7-31-1883 d. 8-24-1886
Sherman, Coke T. 5-28-1882 d. 2-20-1885
Sherman, William 3-20-1887 2-7-1888
Sherman, Sarah J. 12-8-1844 d. 6-15-1913 &
Sherman, J.R. 4-18-1842 d. 11-24-1898 (Mason)
Sherman, Lizzie Lee 11-23-1889 d. 8-31-1900
Sherman, infant 4-23-1909 d. 4-25-1909 (son of F.E. & S.C.)
Sherman, F.E., Jr. 4-11-1912 d. 6-28-1913 (son of F.E. & S.C.)
Sherman, A. d. March 1918 (infant)
Sherman, Alanzo 11-8-1878 d. 1-28-1918 (WOW)
Sherman, Anna Bell 12-8-1882 d. 1-13-1963 (WOW Circle)
Sherman, Charlie J. 1-15-1857 d. 6-5-1911
Sherman, infant son d. 9-6-1910 (next to Alanzo)
Sherman, Iris Bettie 3-21-1906 d. 11-29-1998 &
Sherman, Essie Thelma 11-30-1904 d. 3-18-1996
Sherman, James Edd 9-6-1937 d. 11-17-1974 &
Sherman, Martha Sue 9-8-1938 d.____
Sherman, Herman B. 10-17-1904 d. 9-6-1986
Sherman, Rev. Lotus Alonzo 9-21-1905 d. 8-8-2000 &
Sherman, Mattie Lee 2-7-1915 d. 1-2-2001 (married 7-12-1930)
Sherman, Frank Alonzo 6-29-1930 d._____ &
Sherman, Regina Ray 5-20-1933 d. 5-24-1995 (married 8-6-1950)
Stewart, Hollen Lewis 3-7-1876 d. 6-28-1907 (WOW)
Stewart, Guss (red stone) (no dates)
Stewart, O. D. 2-25-1913 d. 9-28-2000 &
Stewart, Avis J. 9-9-1915 d._____
Stoddard, Irene B. 1900-1977
Swearingen, Jimmy Earl 1-4-1937 d._____ &
Swearingen, Martha Ann 11-28-1936 d. 8-16-2002 (married 4-26-1958)
Swearingen, Charles 10-1-1930 d. 8-2-1993 (brother)
Swearingen, Kenneth 7-6-1928 d. 10-26-1935 (brother)
Tate, Maxwell 1902-1938
Tate, W.F. 1872-1937
Tate, Emma N. 4-15-1877 d. 5-3-1926 (wife of W.F.)
Tate, Frank T. 1897-1977
Tate, Willie Mae 12-29-1911 d. 9-30-1994 (Sgt. US Marine Corps WWII)
Taylor, Margaret 1867-1934 &
Taylor, Abe E. 1874-1956
Taylor, Homer C. 11-2-1903 d. 1-25-1962 (Tex-Pvt-US Army-WW II)
Taylor, Flora Elizabeth 9-18-1901 d. 2-5-2000
Taylor, Clifton M. 3-6-1914 d. 2-8-1990 &
Taylor, Gwendolyn R. 9-23-1916 d. 8-28-1995 (married 10-24-1936)
Traylor, Carole Dianna 12-27-1945 d. 4-10-1946
Traylor, Jessie H. 1919-1944
Traylor, Douglas Ray 7-4-1935 d. 9-4-1938 (son of Walter & Clara)
Traylor, Walter W. 7-3-1892 d. 4-30-1972 &
Traylor, Clara E. 8-6-1898 d. 3-24-1974
Watson, Monterey 1-29-1900 d. 8-28-1961 &
Watson, Sarah 8-17-1932 d.6-2-1947 &
Watson, Flora 9-10-1899 d. 10-27-1990
Watson, Bethel D. 3-25-1892 d. 8-29-1960 &
Watson, Gertrude B. 3-5-1894 d. 7-23-1961
Watson, infant son (no dates) *
Watson, W. Odell 4-6-1905 d. 8-22-1957
Watson, Otto Christo 1896 d. 6-2-1947 (Texas-Y3C-USN-WWI)
Watson, T.R. 11-9-1861 d. 2-10-1925 &
Watson, Mary Ann 10-19-1866 d. 10-2-1946
Watson, Maxine 1-10-1922 d. 1-29-1986
Watson, George O. 1925-1986 & (US Navy WWII)
Watson, Pat 1934-____
Watson, Vora Ferrell 3-17-1903 d. 12-11-1975
Watson, Morris E. 4-10-1913 d. 6-27-1980 &
Watson, Berniece W. 9-15-1918 d. 10-6-1993
Weatherford, Johnnie B. 4-25-1905 d. 10-15-1908 (daughter of J.W. & O.D.)
Weatherford, Ollie D. 11-29-1879 d. 1-7-1919 (OES) (WOW Circle)
Woodall, Wylie Harmon 2-13-1894 d. 12-6-1978 &
Woodall, Mary Jesse 8-10-1895 d. 12-9-1978 (married 12-25-1923)
Wortham, Marvin L. "Bud" 7-19-1921 d. 11-2-1998 (son of Richard & Katie Wortham)(on stone with Beatrice Reynolds)
Wortham, Richard 5-25-1893 d. 1-17-1979
Wortham, Katie 5-24-1896 d. 6-11-1984