History

MINTER’S CHAPEL CEMETERY, Glade Road and West Airfield Drive, D/FW Airport

HISTORY – Soon after lay minister Green W. Minter (1803 – 1887) arrived in northern Tarrant County in 1854, he helped organize Minter’s Chapel Methodist Church. James Cate set aside 4.1 acres for the church and a burial ground. The early log meetinghouse was replaced in 1882 by a frame structure. In 1967, the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport acquired the surrounding land, but not the 1.5 acre cemetery, and the church was relocated.

The cemetery contains many small graves, indicating a high infant mortality rate in the community.

NOTABLE DATES – Earliest known burial – A.M. Newton, 1857. Registered as a Texas Historic Landmark, 1979.

Information from :

http://www.rootsweb.com/~txtarran/cemetery/cemetery-guide.htm

FAST FACT:

CEMETERY – (n) A place set aside for burial or entombment of the dead.

Inhumation, or burial of the dead, has been practiced by man since prehistoric times. Early Homo sapiens sapiens first used collective burial sites and included grave goods, items buried with the deceased individual. The full significance of these traditions is not known, but it seems to indicate some ritual care in the disposal of the dead as well as some kind of belief in an afterlife. In later periods of history, cremation became more common, and the Egyptian practice of mummification developed. Modern man has primarily used inhumation to dispose of his dead. It is the most common method used by peoples professing Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Hindu and Buddhist peoples traditionally practice cremation.