Gooseneck Cemetery Association

Gooseneck Cemetery Association If you have family or friends buried at Gooseneck, or are interested in Young County history, go like.

If you have family or friends buried at Gooseneck, or are interested in Young County history, go like this page! Contribute any pictures, articles, or anecdotes you have that might be of interest to folks with connections to the south end of the county.

04/09/2026

We have been luckier than some other rural cemeteries, in that we have not had wild hogs get in and knock over any markers or monuments… YET. But the last couple of times I have out to the cemetery, the gate was standing open, and nobody was there.
I asking anybody who visits to close the gate when you leave, and report it here if you arrive to find it open.
And while we’re on the subject of visiting the cemetery… if you arrive horseback, I think we’d all prefer you tie your mount to the fence under the shade by the gate. But if you’re bound to ride in, at a bare minimum you should clean up the road apples.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

01/27/2026

View Robert Moore's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Concrete tombstones are unique in Young County, Texas cemeteries. If one notices the style of this one, it was created u...
10/04/2025

Concrete tombstones are unique in Young County, Texas cemeteries. If one notices the style of this one, it was created using a mold with present letters and numbers. At the age of 118 years, it's still a remarkable tombstone. John Henry William Newby was born in 1833 at Clinton County, Missouri. He was married four times and was the father of 21 known children, there may have been more. His first wife was Nancy Culwell and they married in 1853 at Collin County, Texas. It's unknown where she is buried. HIs second wife was Frances Cordell and they married in 1857 at Leavenworth, Kansas where she is buried. It appears they must have separated since she is alive when he married his third wife who was Louisa Ford. Louisa and John married in 1870 and they were living in Young County when she died in 1883. His fourth wife was Hannah Alcorn and they married in the Gooseneck Community in 1884. John Newby was one a pioneer rancher in West Texas. He was a part of the frontier days and lived two miles south of Graham. Those were the good old day as they say. John Henry William Newby is buried in the Gooseneck cemetery in Young County, Texas.

06/02/2025

View David Lee Heath's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

06/02/2025

I really hope somebody took some pictures today… I didn’t. But the cemetery looked good and we had a very good turnout. If you were there, please check in and share your impressions along with any pictures you might have taken.

05/11/2025

Gooseneck Reunion is almost here. First Sunday in June which is June 1st. Ya’ll come!!

09/02/2024

View Gracie Marie Perkins's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Miss Lillie McClendon was born in 1877 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. She moved to Texas with her parents, Dr. David and...
07/15/2024

Miss Lillie McClendon was born in 1877 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. She moved to Texas with her parents, Dr. David and Mary McClendon when she was one month old. Her father died in 1893. She married Thomas Bunger on February 5, 1905 in the Mountain Home Community. The couple had three children, William, George, and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Bunger were active church members of the Bunger Church of Christ. She died on December 27, 1958 at the age of 81 years. She's buried beside her husband in the Gooseneck Cemetery. Her father donated the land for Mountain Home cemetery.

06/05/2024

Kenny Whittenburg here… I’m the volunteer president of the Gooseneck Cemetery Association… Just as a FYI to the families of loved ones buried there…
It’s pretty common for new graves to sink and need fill dirt added. The cemetery is not officially maintained… it’s all volunteer, supplemented by occasional mowing and cleanup by the county inmate work crew.
I will coordinate with the sheriff’s department and Morrison’s… if you see a grave that has settled, let me know, and I’ll see that whichever one is out there next will fill it in. If neither one is going out there in the next couple of weeks, I’ll do it myself.

If you were able to be at the Gooseneck reunion on Sunday, you heard me mention a grave that was unmarked with the name,...
06/03/2024

If you were able to be at the Gooseneck reunion on Sunday, you heard me mention a grave that was unmarked with the name, "Eander". After the event, Steve Askew and I were in the cemetery so I could point out the Glover graves. Standing at those graves, Steve said, "doesn't that flat rock show Eander?" Mystery solved. Upon further study of the rock, it appears to be "E. Anderson". One mystery solved, another mystery yet to be uncovered.

06/03/2024

We appreciate everybody who came out today. I’ll get the specifics from Tammy, and update this page later

One of the first people I met when I moved to Graham in 1996 was Bob and Annaliese Berry. I always enjoyed sitting in th...
03/16/2024

One of the first people I met when I moved to Graham in 1996 was Bob and Annaliese Berry. I always enjoyed sitting in their home talking about their families. Bob loved to talk about his mother, Helen Berry, who in her early youth, taught school in the Conner Creek, Ming Bend and Gooseneck Communities. Bob loved to tell the story of his mother, at the age of nine, seeing Teddy Roosevelt campaigning for President when his train stopped in Wichita Falls in 1901. Bob reminded me that his middle name "Davis" was his mother's maiden name, which was customary in the old days. Helen Davis married her husband, Robert Berry in 1913 and the couple spent most of their married life in the Rabbit Creek community, west of Newcastle. Helen Berry was a correspondent for the Graham Leader telling about the "comings and goings" of people in the country. Helen Berry passed away in 1973 and is buried in the Gooseneck community. I sure miss Bob and Annaliese Berry, they were wonderful friends.

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