Pendergrass Cemetery 
Sidney vicinity, Comanche County,  Texas
Cemeteries of Texas Coordinator: Dolores I. Bishop

Information provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site

 Location: 
From Sidney, take FM 1689 south about 1 mile, then go 
east on county road about 1 mile. 

Marker : 
Pioneer farmer and rancher William Pendergrass (1818-98) 
and his wife, Emaline (1819-1907), moved from Tennessee to 
Smith County, Texas, in 1849. They first came to Comanche County 
in 1859, then settled here permanently after a brief return to Smith
 County (1866-73). Some of the Pendergrasses' nine children also settled
 in this area. A leader in this frontier community, Pendergrass helped to 
establish several churches and a school, as well as this cemetery. The first 
interment here was in 1883, when Pendergrass offered a plot of his land for 
the burial of a stranger whose body was found nearby. Soon afterward, he moved 
graves of two of his grandchildren, Hilliard Pendergrass and Pearly Cook, to this 
site from a tract of land he had sold. In 1888 he deeded the one-acre cemetery to
 the community. Emaline Pendergrass donated another acre shortly after her husband's 
death in 1898. The 525 graves now (1975) here include those of Pendergrass, his wife, 
and many of their descendants. The Pendergrass Cemetery Association, formed as the 
result of a community beautification drive, fenced the site and erected gates in 1959. 
The well-maintained cemetery is still used for burials. (1975)