Pope Cemetery Newsletter - May 2026

EST. 1880

1606 CR 4757 (Pope Rd.)  BOYD, TX 76023

Exciting news for the POPE CEMETERY

We now have an email address, phone number and the website is under construction!

Officers & Board Members

Officers: 

President: Tony Pope

Secretary & acting Treasurer: Sandy Brown

Historian: June Haney

Board Memebers:

Tony Pope, June Haney, Carolyn Pope, Laura Mayborn, Richard Brown, Bobby Pope

The Officers and Board Members for 2025 -2026 all have been hard at work elevating  the POPE CEMETERY onto the next level. 

With the help of Chris Rogers, we have executed the setup of:

Email address: newseletter@popecemetery.org

This email address will serve as a way to contact all family members to inform everyone of the next YEARLY MEETING at the Pope Cemetery.

WEBSITE:  POPECEMETERY.ORG  (under construction now)

 This WEBSITE will inform everyone of all of the information that has been gathered by the historians of the Pope Cemetery.  Thanks to June Haney’s many years of putting all of this information together, now will be available for everyone to see on the website.  

Along with news, important dates for meetings or work days, etc. on a calendar for the Pope Cemetery.

Also, you will be able to add any of your relatives to the Newsletter Sign Up dropdown tab or the Contact Us dropdown tab that have not received the Yearly Meeting Invitation in past years.

Chris has also helped us set up several new ways to accept donations for the cemetery:

• Through the banking app ZELLE – you can use this specific email address:  donate@popecemery.org to send your donation quickly and securely. 

• The QR CODE below is also another secure way to send you donations directly to the Pope Cemetery – Wells Fargo bank account.  Just go to your camera on your smart phone, capture the QR Code.  Once the Zelle App opens, add your bank name and connect.   Then it will prompt you on what to do next.  Any amount of donation is appreciated!

• Of course, checks are accepted – please make your check out to Pope Cemetery.  The mailing address is:  Sandy Brown, P.O. Box 484, Boyd, TX 76023

All of this progress will enable the Pope Cemetery to grow, inform and continue to be a self sustaining entity!  

*BIG NEWS!!!  BIG NEWS!!!  BIG NEWS!!!  BIG NEWS!!**

The board has voted and executed the start of Mapping 2D GPR Scan of each of the grave sites at the Pope Cemetery.  This will allow more precision of the burial locations in the future.  Wood Inspection Services located in Double Oak, Texas, has been chosen by the board with deep investigation.  Stay tuned for the progress on this much needed service.

**June 13, 2026 Saturday, 11:30 a.m.** is our next meeting at the  POPE CEMETERY in Boyd.

Please mark your calendar and please tell all of your family members to attend and bring a lunch dish!

LATEST HAPPENINGS at the POPE CEMETERY

1..  Richard and Sandy Brown  have put a pre-emergent down onto the grass to prevent weeds and stickers this year already.  ESTIMATED COST: $ 120

2.  Richard Brown has done an amazing job of maintaining and clearing the trees/brush on the property for many years.  We will need help to cut more trees down that are dead and cut limbs off of trees that are needed, gather all of the stumps and limbs and then haul them off throughout this year….  

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED.  PLEASE EMAIL AND LET US KNOW IF YOU ARE AVAILABLE AT ANY TIME TO HELP WITH THIS JOB BEFORE IT GETS TOO HOT!

 3.  Mowing at the cemetery has already started.  Mowing is done typically 7 to 8  months out of the year and in most cases, 2 times in a month.  Richard Brown has a group set up to do this at a COST OF:  $ 325.00 each mowing – which will add up this year.

DONATIONS ARE GREATLY NEEDED TO CONTINUE THE BEAUTIFICATION OF THIS AMAZING PROPERTY AND CEMETERY