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|  Subject: Dido Cemetery (Tarrant County)  Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:26 pm | |
| We passed through little Dido this evening .... a community situated in far northwestern Tarrant County, on the shores of Eagle Mountain Lake. At present, Dido is a mixture of of rustic and upscale impressions; the simple, perhaps, numbering its days. A 'Classical' feel might even be attributed to the fresh edifices and manicured, landscape architecture which are making their presences felt,* and no wonder: Dido has an image to live up to ~
http://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/dido.html
http://phoenicia.org/elissardidobio.html
Texas schoolmasters of the nineteenth century were often a longsighted sort 
Dido's cemetery is very well-kept, with many lovely, older monuments standing side-by-side with those of recent vintage. It is a small space -- extending beneath a wind-rippled Stars-and-Bars; clearly treasured and much-decorated in honor of those who rest there.
* In his '1001 Texas Place Names' (UT, 1980), Fred Tarpley cited the story of a penmanship professor of the area, "who frequently told his students about ancient myths. He was especially fond of giving accounts about Dido, queen and founder of Carthage." (page 63) Other possibilties for the origin of the place-name are given by Professor Tarpley as well.
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