KELSEY CEMETERY
DELSEY, UPSHUR COUNTY, TEXAS
Latitude: 32.72972 : Longitude: -95.04056
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Kelsey Mormon Colony
Received church endorsement after Mormon brothers John and Jim Edgar bought a large tract of timber land here in 1898.
By end of 1901, Sunday school and church were organized.
In Nov. 1902, townsite was laid out by church officials. Post office was located in J. S. Ault store. One-room building served as school and church until 1909, when first church was built.
Kelsy Branch was sponsor of Latter Day Saints churches in Enoch, Dallas, Gilmer, Tyler, Longview, Pittsburg, Texarkana, Hooks, and Marshall; joined with Enoch, Gilmer churches, in 1958.
Posterity Sign At Gate
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you make good use of it.
- John Adams
Spanish American War
Served in Later Wars *
Odell Ellett **
William R. Henderson **
Memorial Stone At Gate
God Shed His Grace On Thee
Grant Us the Grace Fearlessly To Contend Against Evil To Make No Peace With Opressids
This Humble Tribute Is Dedicated Memorial Day 1983 To Those Of This Community Who Answered The Call and Some Gave Their All In Freedoms Cause
Civil War Memorial At Gate
April 12, 1861 May 26, 1865
The tragic struggle for a Nation s conscience with love and tears for the blue and the gray Enemies In War In Peace Friends
David J. Ashworth
Carl Allen Bryant
David Ballard
James Joel Caldwell
Bobby Joe Cope
Phillip R. Cope
Douglas C. Coin
M. Jefferson Deason
Michael A. Denton
Elin Fowler
Billy Dewayne Gray
William E. Grubbs
Paul Hughes
John E. Johnson
Jerry Lynn Jones
Leonard L. Langs
Larry D. LaPorie
Timothy L. Lindsey
Wm. Boyd Lindsey
Junior L. McClelland
Jerry L. McCullough
Orin S. Mask, Jr.
Robert Leo Mask
Terry Eugene Mask
Dana Myers
J. Alpheaus Shirley
David L. Simpson
Kenneth W. Stegall
Ronald Stegall
J. Larry Tefteller
Charles Wade
Maurice E. Warren
Thomas Dale Warren
Civil War Vets Memorial Listing
John Wesley Ault
George W. Cummins
James D. Hamberlin
James M. Lindsey
Joseph A. Slater
Thomas A. Sullivan
Rufus M. Yarborough
J. W. R. Jones
George Travis Cude
Spanish American War
April 25, 1898 - Aug. 12, 1898
Our Men Fought Heroically In The Splendid Little War Proving The United States a World Influence
World War I
April 6, 1917 Nov. 11, 1918
Our Doughboys Who Battled To End All Wars May Their Principles Be Established Forever
World War I
Shirley E. Bailey
Archie D. Bodine
Jim Case
Nephi Case
L. Lamar Hamberlin
Neil William Harris
Joseph Henderson
Henry Knight
Herbert E. Spiegelhauer
Albert Ellett
World War II
Dec. 7, 1941 Dec. 31, 1946
A Day Of Infamy Sent Millions to Far Away Theaters Brave Men Contending For the Best Of Causes
World War II Vets
Served in Later Wars *
++ Killed in Action
Duward B. Albright
A. Cecil Ault
Bartholomew A. Ault
Glenn Paton Ault *
J. R. (Joe Bob) Ault
Julius S. Ault
Kenneth E. Bailey
Milton T. Bailey, Jr.
Eugene Barricklow
William E. Barrow
Emory Barton
Ernest Bell
Ernest N. Bowers
Don. O. Burnett
Herman Burnett
Irene Byrd
Ernest Cope
Robert B. Dawson
Marvin R. Denton
Merrill T. Denton
Maurice Dixon
W. Talmadge Dixon
Anthony Fischtziur
Jerald D. Fowler
Johnny Bunk Cilbert
George S. Green
William E. Grubbs
E. Carl Hamberlin
Glenn L. Hamberlin
Intha Hamberlin
O. B. Lindsey
William C. Rapp
Carla V. Mean Peed
Douglas C. Pritchett
Frank L. Ritter
James A. Rowley
Boyd Sanders
Norman L. Shirley
Urban M. Shirley ++
Estle Darwin Smith
Sherwin E. Smith
Willa Stegall
Alfred B. Wade
Ewell Gene Wade
Delbert W. Walters
Darrell Ward
Melvin Ward
A. C. Welch
Fred James White
Alan Kyle Whitehead
Porter L. Whitehead
Wm. Mose Whitehead
Prisoners Of War
Joe Cope
H. T. Cope
Truman Cope
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J. Calvin Wade
Rufus Leland Walters
Owen D. (Tom) Walters
Robert Lee Crider
Korean Conflict
June 27, 1950 Jan. 31, 1955
They Fought To Stem The Red Tide Defending Others, They Defended Us As Well.
Korean Conflict
Killed In Action
Served in Later Wars *
Thurman M. Albright
James D. Bostean
Frank Nolan Bryant
Lawrence D. Bryant
Myron B. Bryant, Jr.
Robert E. Bryant *
Arthur M. Buckley
Don B. Burnett
James (Jim) Burnett
Dan Dixon
Jerry Dixon
Scott Green
Leon Hall
Luther Eugene Hall
Keith A. Hamberlin
Robert O. hardman
Donald Ray Hensley
Donald Hooper
Don C. Lindsey, Jr.
Oscar Redding
Ralph E. Russell
C. Milton Shirley
Rowan Dee Shirley
John Ed Wade
Rowan B. Wade
Floyd Winston Walker
Vietnam War Memorial
Vietnam Era
Aug. 5, 1964 May 7, 1975
Called To Fight An Undeclared Jungle War For Preservation Of Justice
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