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Clover Hill Cemetery
Wood County,
Texas

Clover Hill Cemetery
Texas Historical Markers
FM 69, 5 mi. N, Quitman, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 51' 46.64049999984", -95° 25' 21.65226999996"

Families from Georgia and Alabama settled this land in 1856. The next year they chose this hill which was covered with yellow clover for construction of the Clover Hill Baptist Church. In 1868 Little Buddy, son of G. H. and Sallie Pogue, was the first burial in this community cemetery. Soon a stranger died of smallpox and was interred here. The oldest marked gravestone is that of Martha Benton (1840-1862). She was buried, according to custom, near her home and later the family moved the headstone here. In 1926 the cemetery association was organized. (1979)

Photo Courtesy of Cullen and Jeanne

Contributed on 10/12/14

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Record #: 28762

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Submitted: 10/12/14 • Approved: 10/12/14 • Last Updated: 3/26/18 • R28762-G0-S3

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