Picture taken ca 1918:

Frances “Fannie” Adelia KYSER

w/o Charles VAUGHN, who

preserved Cemetery by

deed dated January 29, 1913,

filed for record Rockwall County Vol. 10, Page 493

(Submitted by Edith Kyser Smith)

Kyser Family Cemetery

Go 130 to FM 740, past Chandler’s Landing to a 3-way STOP. Take a Right on FM 1 140 (or Smirl Drive),  past the Episcopal Church, to Sandra Drive. Take a right on Sandra Drive.  The Cemetery is on the left, back off the street. Cemetery is fenced In Chain Link.  It is 39 feet by 26.5 feet in size.

The cemetery was part of a 640 acre land grant to James A. KYSER, who came to Texas  in 1845; the land grant was on the E. TeaI League and Labor Survey in Mercers Colony.  The land where the Cemetery lies was inherited by Frances “Fannie” Ardella KYSER VAUGHN, daughter of JKP KYSER and granddaughter  of James A. KYSER.  Fannie set aside the space for the cemetery when she sold the land in 1913. This document is  filed In Rockwall County Court House in Vol. 10, page 493, of the Deed Records.

Interred here are:

James A KYSER, born S.C. 1800, died July 29, 1882;

Susan Alabama PENRY KYSER, Died February 28, 1885, age 33 yrs 5 Mo. and 1 day.

                                                Infant son of Ed KYSER and Ada THOMPSON KYSER, Born and Died 1893. 

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