Rehoboth Cemetery

Located in south Arlington at Cooper Street and Harris Road is the Rehoboth Cemetery. The cemetery is 2.5 acres and has over 500 graves, although many of the older headstones are no longer legible. There is a Texas Historical Marker near the entrance, which gives an overview of the cemetery.

Rehoboth Cemetery – Texas Historical Marker

The marker makes a reference to Mary Miller and John Sublett, whose headstones are pictured below. Mary Miller, an infant who died in 1871, was the first burial in the cemetery. John Sublett (1891-1951) was the namesake of the Sublett community located in this area. The small community had a school, a post office, and a church. The Sublett community no longer exists, as the area is part of present-day Arlington.

More than half of the burials in the cemetery were before 1950. The cemetery isn’t used as much today, with only a dozen or so new burials since 2010. A sign on the front gate indicates that only exclusive burials are allowed.

Represented in the cemetery are members and descendants of the Sublett, Harris, Lowe, and Bardin pioneer families. Their surnames are immortalized in nearby street names.

Today, south Arlington is mostly known as a residential area. Amidst the thousands of houses dotting the landscape, it can be easy to forget that it wasn’t always that way. The area looked much different during John Sublett’s and Mary Miller’s lives. But there’s still a connection to the area’s past if you know where to look.