Bethel Cemetery, by Frances Miers Muller

Most of these photos were taken in the late 1990s. Although I do have a few that were taken in the 1980s and 1950s. These are of the Shrader and Tarpley families. George Hammond Shrader and family arrived in Collin County about 1874, after staying about three years in Arkansas. Their original home was in the area of Manchester in Coffee County, Tennessee. The oldest of their children, John Burr Shrader, remained in Tennessee. One of John Burr's daughters did come to Frisco in the 1890s and she and her husband are buried here. One son, Fountain Pitt Shrader, was born while in Arkansas, and the last of their twelve children, Daniel Booker Shrader, was born after arriving in Collin County. Several of their children and grandchildren are buried here in Bethel and several others are buried in other cemeteries in Collin County. At least two others are buried at Restland in Dallas.

More complete explanations will be with the individual photos of the gravestones.

Shared gravestone: Fountain Pitt Shrader, Sue Hume Shrader, & dau. Audrey Shrader. Fount is one of the brothers of my ggm, Mary Frances (known as Frank) Shrader Tarpley, who is buried nearby. Their parents, George H. & Mary I. Shrader are also nearby. .	William Henry Harrison Shrader and wife, Sarah Elizabeth Huff Shrader .	Shared gravestone for George Hammound Shrader and Mary Inez Gibbs Shrader. They arrived in Collin County about 1874 with their eleven children. In August of 1874, their last child was born, Daniel Booker Shrader. .	Daniel 'Booker' Shrader & Rosa Bell Holt Shrader. Nearby is the grave of Ada Rogers Shrader. Booker's 1st wife & mother of his children. .
Shared gravestone of Mary Frances (Frank) Shrader and her 5th son, William Lake Shrader. Both died in 1917. William in El Paso & 'Frank' in McAlister, NM. .	Sterling Lake Tarpley gravestone. His 2nd son, George, is buried next to him and about ten graves south is his wife, Mary Frances Shrader Tarpley & son, William. This is a metal gravemarker. I would like to know about it and the symbol on it. .	Mollie Tarpley gravestone (Mary Duncan Tarpley). She was married to Henry 'Clay' Tarpley, the oldest son of Sterling Lake Tarpley & Mary Frances Shrader Tarpley. .