Comanche Co. Cemeteries of TX
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Location:
6
miles west of De Leon on FM 587 to CR 170.
Historical Marker: Settlement in the community that
became known as Nineveh began as some southerners moved west after
the close of the Civil War. In 1886, Hezekiah Bellamy gave two
acres for a school and cemetery around this site. A young schoolmaster
who was a graduate of Harvard University in Massachusetts named
the school and cemetery for Nineveh in ancient Assyria. The first
person to be interred here was Elizabeth McNeely (1804-1890).
Her granddaughter, Minnie McNeely Dukes (1885-1972), was a teacher
and community leader at Ninevah, and the Dukes family has maintained
the historic graveyard. The area around the cemetery gradually
became known as Old Nineveh. There are about 24 graves in the
cemetery, including those of members of several pioneer Comanche
County families. (2000)