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Submitted: 7/20/14 • Approved: 7/20/14 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R12368-G0-S3
Historic Texas Cemetery Marker for Maxwell Cemetery
GPS Coordinates 33deg 01min 20.76sec N & 96deg 36min 21.44sec W
MAXWELL CEMETERY
In 1886, while a resident of Coryell County, James Maxwell, Jr., sold three acres of land for five dollars to trustees C. A. McMillan, H. Willaford and W. Brinson and formally established Maxwell Cemetery. Members of the families of the three trustees are buried at the cemetery, but no Maxwell family members are interred at the site. The cemetery’s earliest marked grave burial is that of Samuel McCreary, who died in 1853. Over one-third of the graves are those of small children, showing the difficulty of childhood at the time. Burials at the cemetery include veterans of the Black Hawk War, Civil War and World War I. The Maxwell Cemetery served the Murphy area for over 100 years, with the last burial in 1966.
HISTORIC TEXAS CEMETERY - 2001
MARKER IS PROPERTY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS
Contributed on 7/20/14 by gasirek
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