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Marker No: 15916

Texas Historic Cemetery Marker

Geographic: 30.8799, -97.4283

Location: ​Approximately 0.6 miles north of Hackberry Road

 Marker Text: ​This burial ground was established in the 1850s on land deeded by Alexander James Dallas. It served residents of Mountain Home, a rural community which formed along Darrs Creek. Alexander James Dallas (1820-1889) was one of four men considered the founding fathers of Salado. He was also one of the organizers of Salado College, served on its first board of trustees, owned land upon which Salado would be established and was a stockholder in the Salado College Joint Stock company. When he died, he willed property for use as a cemetery. Dallas, his first wife Tabitha (Wills) and his second wife Margaret (Henry) are all interred here.
      The oldest marked grave dates to 1859 and is of Isaac Henry Ford; there are also a number of unmarked graves. The interred include early community leaders and veterans of conflicts dating to the Texas War for Independence. Other noted individuals buried here include James Childress Armstrong (1816-1888), who served in the army of the Republic of Texas and was a member  of the Mier Expedition, and Thaddeus W. Knight (1847-1893), a Mountain Home blacksmith who invented and patented an improved cotton and corn planter. Cemetery features include curbing, fraternal markers, vertical stones, interior fencing and obelisks. In 1988, the Dallas Cemetery Association formed to maintain the burial ground; in 2005, the Dallas Cemetery Association Board of Trustees, organized by descendants of the interred, formed to care for the graveyard. today, Dallas Cemetery is the only remaining vestige of the Mountain Home community, serving as a record of the former settlement. (2008)