The community which was once known as Honey Bend now exists only as a cemetery. By the 1880s the little town was settled, taking its name from a very prominent twist in the nearby Brazos River.
At the peak of the communities' life, it boasted of little more than a school and church, but the folks there did manage to form a cemetery association in 1932 to maintain the original graveyard.
It is listed as a Ghost Town by Texas Excapes: Population 0. It is located in the North Central Texas area of Young County just a few miles south of Graham, off of FM 1287. It is about 37 miles NW of Mineral Wells.
James F. Fisher
At the peak of the communities' life, it boasted of little more than a school and church, but the folks there did manage to form a cemetery association in 1932 to maintain the original graveyard.
It is listed as a Ghost Town by Texas Excapes: Population 0. It is located in the North Central Texas area of Young County just a few miles south of Graham, off of FM 1287. It is about 37 miles NW of Mineral Wells.
James F. Fisher
James F. FisherIn Memory
of
James F. Fisher
Was Born
Nov. 18th, 1877
And Died
Dec. 20th, 1882
"GO HOME Dear Friends,
And Dry Your TEARS
I Must Lay Here
Till Christ APPEARS"
Son of Joseph and Sarah Fisher
Sources
Photographs:
Fisher, James F. Tombstone. Digital Photographs. 2009. Privately held by Judith Richards Shubert, Fort Worth, TX. 2009.
Websites:
Holub, Dorman. USGWArchives.net Online Texas Genealogy, "Gooseneck Cemetery, Young County, TX." http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/young/photos/tombstones/gooseneck.html/ : accessed June 9, 2009.
Troesser, John. TexasEscapes.com Online, "History in a Pecan Shell: Ghost Towns-Gooseneck, Texas." http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasGhostTowns/GooseneckTexas.htm/ : accessed June 9, 2009.
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