Tye Memorial Cemetery. Oak Grove Tye Cemetery. Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas. OAK GROVE, TEXAS (Tarrant County). Oak Grove is a farm community on Farm Road 1187 eight miles from Fort Worth in south central Tarrant County. In 1866 three brothers, all Confederate veterans from Kentucky, settled the area. The house of one of the three, Robert Wickliffe Tye, still stood in 1990. In 1873 a post office branch opened at the site, which the brothers named Oak Grove because of the numerous oak trees. In 1885 the tracks of the Missouri Pacific reached the area. Early in the twentieth century, however, the railroad discontinued its trains through the community. In 1901 the post office closed. The Oak Grove population never exceeded fifty, and by the early 1940s the community had all but disappeared. A 1963 map of the area shows a dozen scattered dwellings, a church, a cemetery, and the nearby Oak Grove Airfield. In 1987 Oak Grove was a suburb of Fort Worth and had a dozen residential streets.
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Historic Resources Survey: Selected Tarrant County Communities (Fort Worth: Historic Preservation Council for Tarrant County, 1990).
There is a printed book about the Tye Cemetery of the Oak Grove Community near Fort Worth, Texas. The name of the book is "Tye Cemetery Families and History" by Mary Catherine Hoaldridge Arnold and was revised in Oct. 2002.
The Tarrant County Historical Commission has a copy one can read there. The address is 100 E. Weatherford and the phone is (817) 884-3272. or you can contact them at spritchett@tarrantcounty.com. Otherwise I understand that a copy can be ordered for about $15 directly from Mrs. Arnold at 11221 Smallwood Dr, Burleson, Texas 76028.
