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Submitted: 3/18/18 • Approved: 3/18/18 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R159733-G0-S3
Skinner Cemetery
In the early days of Pilot Point, Lucinda (Glasscock) & Richard Skinner set aside a 2.44 acre piece of land to be used as a cemetery. The first recorded burial was that of a 5 yr old, Josiah Taylor in March of 1858. His father, Josiah, Sr., died the following the July.
Predominately of anglo-saxon protestant descent, most of those buried here came from Kentucky, Virginia, Missour, Arkansas, and Tennesee. Many were farmers or ranchers. Significant graves include that of J.D. Merchant, Sr., a local businessman who built the first brick building in the area. Also here are several victims of yellow fever, including Prissie and Sarah Wilson, sisters dies who died within two months of one another during the epidemic of 1872-1873. Two people named James Graham born on the same date two years apart, died on the same September day in 1867.
Lucinda Skinner, the last charter member of the Pilot Point Baptist Church died in 1890. By 1900, there were probably 200 graves in the cemetery. The land was sold by John Skinner to the Skinner Cemetery Association in 1905. The last recorded burial was that of Joe Mylo Phipps, an infant who died in 1928. The Skinner Cemetery remains a vital link to the early settlers of the Pilot Point community.
Contributed on 3/18/18 by wshaw444
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