William Whitlow's 3-D tombstone at Oakwood Cemetery in Fort Worth is truly an in-your-face kind of memorial, and the story behind it really encapsulates Fort Worth's short but colorful history.

The Peery Cemetery in Cooke County, Texas is endangered by the development of a 7-Eleven.

Crutchfield Cemetery is an African American burial ground that is all but forgotten among a a construction boom in eastern Denton County.

The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1873 claimed several victims in Shreveport, including Eugene Woodruff, who removed the Raft of the Red River.

Red River Station was the fabled crossing for the Abilene Cattle Trail at the Red River in Montague County during the 1870s and 1880s.

Ozan in Hempstead County, Arkansas is a true City of the Dead, a place that connected to the Battle Mound village along the Red River.

In 1868, a battle between native Plains warriors and American settlers took place at White Creek where Cooke, Denton and Wise counties meet.

Near Marksville, Louisiana sit 2,500 year old, human constructed mounds... ancient, earthen pyramids. They've been abandoned once again.

Sophia Suttenfield Aughinbaugh Coffee Butt Porter was one of the more colorful characters to inhabit the Red River Valley.

The Simonds Precinct cemetery is known called to its families as "Sand Branch."

Sgt. Roy Speake died early in the morning on D-Day, June 6, 1944 during the invasion of Normandy, and is now buried in Cooke County, Texas.

Hugo's Mount Olivet Cemetery is home to Showman's Rest section, where circus folk go to get buried.

Paris, Texas has several inactive, old cemeteries within its city limits.

Preston was founded by Holland Coffee, and yes, that was his real name.

Leon Hinds, Band of Brothers Grave

Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped and adopted into a Comanche family, who renamed her Narua (foundling) in 1836.

Every Veteran's Day - aka Armistice Day - I like to post about a Great War (WWI) veteran because these men hoped that this was the "war...

Alvin Reeves, a Great War soldier, is buried in the segregated portion of Gates Hill Cemetery in Bonham, Texas.

Along a county road in Jackson County, Oklahoma, lies the lonesome grave of Joel Moseley, 1846-1890. Mr. Moseley was born in Georgia and,...

The Willis Cemetery sits just off US 377 north of Lake Texoma in Marshall County, Oklahoma.