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Submitted: 10/14/14 • Approved: 10/14/14 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R29919-G0-S3
Located at Destin Dr and Pensacola Dr in Plano, Collin County, Texas.
GPS Coordinates 33deg 04min 10.64sec N & 96deg 40min 33.76sec W
Leach/Thomas/Perrin Cemetery
The site of the Leach/Thomas/Perrin Cemetery was part of the original Jeremiah Muncey survey. The Muncey family settled along Rowlett Creek in one of the earliest settlements in the Plano area. In 1844, the Muncey family was killed in a raid. Based on a young survivor’s account, oral histories attributed the attack to Native Americans.
Historians believe that the Muncey land was obtained by the family of William and Dycea Perrin sometime after the Muncey incident and that a portion of this land was used as the Perrin Family Cemetery. One of the Perrin daughters married into the Thomas family. When William Perrin divided his land among his children, this daughter (Mrs. Thomas) inherited the property on which the family cemetery was located. Although the markers have disappeared, William and Dycea (Kerbey) Perrin are buried in the Leach/Thomas/Perrin Cemetery. Another Perrin daughter, Mary Elizabeth married John Smith Huffman, Jr. who was the first doctor in Plano. They are the great-grandparents of Lyndon Baines Johnson. The Huffmans are buried in Rowlett Cemetery.
Preston Lawrence Leach, his wife Nancy Elizabeth Atkins and their eight children arrived in Texas from Anderson County, Tennessee around 1860. Another three children were born in Texas. Preston and his oldest son, Charles Monroe, enlisted in the Confederate States Army and served near McKinney.
After settling in the area the Leaches made arrangements to use the Perrin Family Cemetary (sic) for family burials. Today, pipe fencing surrounds the graves of Preston Leach and two of his daughters, Delana and Allie. When Preston’s wife Nancy died seventeen years after his passing in 1868, her body was intended to rest next to that of her husband. Extreme weather conditions on the day of her funeral service prevented this from occurring. Instead family members buried her in Allen where she lies between twin sons John and Joseph at the east end of the Allen City Cemetery.
The Leach Thomas Perrin Cemetery was in active use until about 1920. The cemetery is located on the boundary between the Plano and Allen communities and many residents of Allen are reported to be buried here as well. Accounts specify that approximately one-hundred people are interred in this cemetery, although the stones and markers have been knocked down after the barb wired fences gave way to cows and horses grazing in the surrounding fields.
PRODUCED BY THE PLANO CONSERVANCY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION, INC.
FUNDED IN PART BY A GRANT FROM THE CITY OF PLANO, TX
Research compiled from:
Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas by Joy Gough
Plano, Texas: The Early Years by Friends of the Plano Public Library
The Handbook of Texas Online sponsored by the Texas State History Association
Contributed on 10/14/14 by gasirek
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