Cemetery Tours

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Our cemetery tour is taking a well-deserved break this year! We’ll keep you posted about its return in 2024.

And thanks for attending our annual Ghosts of Southlake Past cemetery tour on Nov. 12, 2022 at Hood Cemetery.

We love our wonderful volunteers–re-enactors Shawn McCaskill (the horse thief), Caspian Dawkins (4:30pm Spencer Graham), Andrew Yeager (6pm Spencer Graham), Tad Schmidt (John Valentine), Abby Williamson (Mary Hood), Elizabeth Beamon (mother) and Ann Coleman (daughter). Also Terri Messing and Darla Reed, who managed the tickets.

A special thank you to Tamara McMillan, who did her usual amazing job recruiting volunteers and coordinating event details.

Wondering what a cemetery tour is like? Take a look!

Past Cemetery Tours

SHS board member Claire Johnson, at right, 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 buried in Hood Cemetery. After the war, John Valentine moved to Texas from Missouri.
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 Medlins set aside a section of the cemetery for the Jones family.