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Past Cemetery Tours
SHS board member Claire Johnson leads tour visitors through Medlin Cemetery in 2019.Bruce McGaha tells the story of Spencer Graham at his grave in Hood Cemetery on Nov. 15, 2014. The Southlake Historical Society toured three cemeteries to tell the stories of pioneers buried in what’s-now Southlake. Re-enactors told the stories to dozens of participants who came out to the event.Carroll grad and then-UNT student Paul Porter tells the story of Joseph Loving, who fought in the Civil War at the age of 52 and is buried in Medlin Cemetery, located in what’s now Trophy Club.Lissa Close (with flashlight) reads Malinda Hill’s tombstone during the Ghosts of Southlake Past event at Lonesome Dove Cemetery on Nov. 15, 2014. Kelsey Sager as Malinda Hill casts an eerie figure as she waits for the tour to start at Lonesome Dove Cemetery on Nov. 15, 2014. Paul Porter has participated many times in the society’s tours. Here he portrays a young Civil War soldier, John Valentine, who moved to Texas from Missouri after the war and is buried in Hood Cemetery (located in Coventry Manor subdivision in Southlake). In 2019, Southlake Councilman Ronell Smith, his wife Rachel and their daughter Ali portrayed Bob Jones (1850-1936), Almeady Chisum Jones (1857-1949) and their daughter Eugie Jones Thomas (1885-1995). The tour was held in the Medlin Cemetery, now located in Trophy Club. Long ago, the Medlin family set aside a section of the cemetery for the Jones family.
