asleep in jesus

Today's cemetery tour included Grassland, Fluvanna and Dermott -- surely you've heard of those places.  Dermott, on US 84 in Scurry County, was a railroad town.  Pete McDermott donated the land for the town and established a store.  A post office was granted in 1902 (which existed until 1990 and is now a weathered pile of lumber - don't you wish you would have stopped on all those trips to Dallas to take a photograph!). Dermott was originally called "Dark" (hmm, about the same time not many miles west was a town called "Light")

 

The land for the Bookout Cemetery and School was donated by Mary Ellen Boase Scrivner, member of a founding family.  There is no mention of where the name "Bookout" originated -- and there's not a single Bookout buried there.  As you travel the dirt road, be on the watch out for the cemetery trees so you'll know where to turn.  There are contemporary graves as well as historic.  The Prather family plot is the only one with the cast iron fence typical of the time.  Rankin's stone is adorned with oak leaves, which symbolize long life--which is ironic since he died June 13, 1920 -- a week before his 30th birthday.

Bookout Cemetery (aka Dermott Cemetery)
Dermott, Texas
US Highway 84