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Texas Historical Commission recognizes Elmwood Cemetery in Bowie, Texas as a new historical
site. American and Confederate flags were available to be placed on veterans gravesites.
Barbara Winingham,
President of The Amity Club introduces Kim Brown Gray who opened the dedication singing The National Anthem. Kim led
the crowd with Amazing Grace before Taps was played by Zack McCaig.
Linda Mesler,
Amity Club Member, assisted the Bowie Brownie Troop in distributing programs for the Dedication.
The Bowie Campfire
USA assisted The Amity Club by serving cake and punch after the Dedication.
The local Cub
Scout Pack 116 assisted in carrying rocks to build the rock fence for the cemetery project.
Barbara Winingham
gives her interview to Channel 6 News before the Dedication.
Helen George, 1st Vice President of The Amity Club, recognizes the donation of the Stallings
& Lindsay pioneer families for donating to the Elmwood Cemetery project. Pictured from left to right: Helen George,
Barbara Winingham, Dr. Charles Cocanoughner, James Winingham (husband of Barbara), and Edwina Browning, all are the great
grandchildren of James W. and Jeptha Stallings. Stallings arrived in Montague County in 1863. Lavonia Stallings Lindsey
arrived in Montague County in 1877.
Barbara Winingham
recognizes James and Joan Cantwell for their donation to the project in memory of their families.James Cantwell's grandparents, James Argyle Cantwell and Susan Melvina Brawley Cantwell, are
buried in Elmwood Cemetery. His grandparents moved from Parker County to Oklahoma and later to the Bowie area in 1909 at
which time they purchased 80 acres of land south of Bowie. Their youngest of ten children was Robert Ivy "Beetle" Cantwell,
father of James Cantwell. Five of James Argyle and Susan Melvina's children are also buried in Elmwood Cemetery and are
as follows: Jasper Thompson Cantwell (veteran of World War I), Effie Lee Cantwell Moody, an infant twin of Joseph Mansfield
Cantwell, Barney Andrew Cantwell, and Robert Ivy "Beetle" Cantwell. Joan Kitley Cantwell's parents, Dayton Victor Kitley and Hazel Jo
Eaves Kitley, are buried in Elmwood Cemetery.
Barbara Winingham recognizes Lola Pitzer, great granddaughter of John Wiseman Slaughter,
pioneer who arrived in Montague County in 1886.
Barbara Winingham recognizes Bobby and Pam (McLendon) Coggin and Frankie Lovelace for their
donation to the cemetery project. Pam is a great great granddaughter of Cash McDonald who arrived in Montague County
in 1856 and lived at Queen's Peak.
Zack McCaig,
15 year old son of Dr. and Mrs. D.B.McCaig played TAPS for the closing of the Elmwood Cemetery Dedication.
Pictured above
and below: The Amity Club members prepare for the Dedication.
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