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Kathy Ann Reid, Dallas County Pioneer Association
McKinney Family Cemetery
10425 Rylie Crest Dr., Dallas, Texas
McKinney Family Cemetery – 10425 Rylie Crest Dr., Dallas, Texas. Cemetery on north side Rylie Crest Dr. at Cade Parkway. North of 10500 US Hwy 175. Not shown on Mapsco as a cemetery; is located in Mapsco 69C.
The first mention found of the one square acre cemetery in Dallas County Official Records was a deed filed 1908 (E.P. Haynes and wife, Martha C., Monroe Gregory and wife Mary, C. L. Young and wife, C. B., J. R. McKinney & wife, Annie, to W.L. Leeds, Vol. 426 P. 245, July 7, 1908). The most recent deed was filed in 1997 (Patsy Ruth Winslett, and Carroll Lewis Murphy to Ata Rahimi, Instrument No. 97252/00268, dated December 18, 1997). In 2020 a short chain-link fence and tombstones were visible. This cemetery was on the Dallas County Pioneer Association Spring 2018 Newsletter Endangered List.
A 1977 survey of tombstones by Blanche Impey and Jeanne Tabb is available in the Dallas Genealogical Society Quarterly, September 1986, Vol. 32, No. 3 and is reproduced below:
McKINNEY FAMILY CEMETERY Survey Copied 1977 by Blanche Impey and Jeanne Tabb
Clara E., daughter of J. R. and Annie McKinney Oct 12, 1910 -May 15, 1913
John Harold McKinney (Johnnie) May 18, 1904 -Jan. 27, 1967
Martha Cornelia Haynes Sept. 13, 1859 -July 26, 1934
Charles Laton Young May 22, 1871 -Sept. 26, 1940
Father and Mother (one stone) Mary I., wife of W. A. McKinney, born May 28, 1829, died February 19, 1903 and W. A. McKinney, born Dec. 11, 1826, died Feb. 29, 1904
Mary V. , wife of Z. D. Bourne born Sept. 25, 1857, died Oct. 14, 1903
McKinney, Mama Annie H., Nov. 5, 1881 – March 13, 1976 and Papa John R., July 25, 1869 -Jan. 25, 1950
The most informative obituary found was that of John R. McKinney (Dallas Morning News 1/26/1950):
DEATH CLAIMS J. R. McKINNEY PRODUCEMAN
John R. McKinney, 80, retired, Dallas vegetable dealer, died Wednesday at his home, 4901 Lemmon Avenue. McKinney started as a young man in Dallas with a horse-drawn wagon selling from house to house. Later he got a truck. He retired about twenty-five years ago.
Born in Winston-Salem, N.C., he came to Texas with his parents in 1880. They settled in the Rylie community near Dallas, where McKinney finished school.
In 1896 he married Miss Annie Hart in Dallas. They have been living at the Lemmon Avenue home for the last thirty-nine years.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thrusday at the McCullough Funeral Home chapel in Mesquite. The Rev. D. L. Wadley will officiate. Burial will be in the Rylie Cemetery.
Besides his wife, survivors include two daughter, Mrs. Maybelle Blumn, and Mrs. Cornelia Hart; three sons, W. R. McKinney, A. L. McKinney and J. H. McKinney; one sister, Mrs. Cleora Belle Young; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild, all of Dallas.
Location
McKinney Family Cemetery
10425 Rylie Crest Dr.
Dallas, TX
April, 2021 Cemetery Visit and Cleanup:
