Cemetery History

The Holliday, Texas Cemetery is located just north of the US Hwy 82/277 business route as you enter town form the east. The Cemetery is privately owned by the Holliday Cemetery Association.

Initially it appears that there was little thought given to the placement of the graves, even up through the 1950’s and 1960’s or later. Gravesites do not necessarily follow any pre-planned Section/Lot format and are often randomly placed. This sometimes makes it very difficult to precisely pinpoint the exact burial location of the occupants. 

In later years someone took the time and effort to organize some sections for reference of the grave locations. However, this effort did not include going back in time to the older sections of the Cemetery and only included the newer sections. Even then, oddly enough, the numbering scheme assigned to the newly numbered Sections/Lots began at 174, skipped a few numbers here and there throughout the cemetery and stopped after the newest locations had been numbered, including the fence row on the West side of the Cemetery.

In an effort the be consistent with the Sections/Lots assignments of 20ft x 20ft sections and 3-foot walkways, a computer was used to overlay a grid of Sections/Lots over the original map. This allowed a rough assignment of all burial sites with a Section/Lot number. The best that could be hoped for was to assign a Section/Lot number that was in the near vicinity of the grave. This would at least allow a loved one to look at the number and get in the neighborhood of the actual gravesite.

Every attempt was made to follow the original numbering scheme currently in place on the newer maps created by Don Ruth. New numbers were assigned for sections not previously numbered to allow easy location of older burial spots.

In 2017 the numbering system was updated again and an Excel spreadsheet was created to identify each lot in the cemetery Sections/Blocks. A color scheme was used to identify unsold lots (no color) lots that had been sold (green) and lots that were occupied (blue). 

In +1 940 6314860 ground penetrating RADAR was used to help identify locations that were believed to be burial lots but no marker exited. There were over 150 possible burial sites identified and those sites have been marked with a white metal cross. These locations are colored purple for UNKNOWN on the Excel spreadsheet.

Cemetery Association Members

The Holliday Cemetery Association members:

Bradley Hardin – President
Jerry McMahan – Vice President
Jolene Styles – Secretary
Lynn Ayres – Superintendent
Polly Hardin - Treasurer
Brenda Reece - Assistant Webmaster
Milton Rios - Member

Bradley Hardin maintains all of the Cemetery's Official Records and maps and should be contacted for all questions concerning burials, lot ownership, purchases and other matters pertaining to the Holliday Cemetery at 940-631-4860 or bhardin.rr@gmail.com

Financial Contributions

All contributions to the Holliday Cemetery Association should be made payable to the        "Holliday Cemetery Association” and mailed to:

Holliday Cemetery Association, P. O. Box 716, Holliday, Tx. 76366

Thank You for your Support!!!