Wilson Cemetery

(2 Reviews)
Mansfield Rd, Grand Prairie, TX 75052, USA

Wilson Cemetery is located in Tarrant County of Texas state. On the street of Mansfield Road .
The coordinates that you can use in navigation applications to get to find Wilson Cemetery quickly are 32.6306163 ,-97.0500898

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State: Texas
Address: Mansfield Rd, Grand Prairie, TX 75052, USA
Postal code: 75052

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Reviews

  • Juan quiroz 11

    (December 25, 2019, 8:31 pm)

    Cool

  • Wayne Hastings

    (December 19, 2019, 7:27 am)

    The pictures on Ophilia's grave(Wilson Cemetery)are misplaced. Ophilias grave is just a fence around 3 gravesites that a family going west by wagon train,
    stopped to give birth to her baby. Both the Mother and infant died during childbirth. The father planted 4 oak tree saplings to mark where the grave sites were. He told a farmer he has buried his wife and daughter down by the creek.(Walnut creek)in1868. There is also another child buried there. James and Mattie Bowlin buried there son there since there was no public cemetery in the area. In the 1930's a woman showed up claiming to be Wilson's daughter and erected a cast iron fence and grave markers for her stepmother and child she never knew. In the 1970's and 1980's, the gravesite became a local haunt and many stories about a witch being buried there, etc. The grave markers were destroyed and for years it stood
    alone with only the fence. Wilson Cemetery has been associated with Magic Valley but they are 5 miles apart before Joe Pool Lake was built and were only accessible by winding dirt roads now replaced by Joe Pool Lake and half-million dollar homes. Most people know Wilson Cemetery as Ophilia's grave. There is an official Texas Historical Marker on the outside of the fence. The gravesite is extremely hard to find.

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