P.A. Watson Cemetery - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Long Description:
Index Entry: P.A. Watson Cemetery
Address: 1024 N. Waston Rd., SH 360
City: Arlington
County: Tarrant
Subject Codes: GY;
Year Marker Erected: 1979
Designations: na
Marker Location: 1024 N. Watson Rd. (SH 360), Arlington
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
West Fork United Presbyterian Church, WMK0G, mentioned in the text.

Marker Number: 3900 Marker Text: Mrs. Micajah Goodwin was buried here in 1846, soon after her family came to this area. They constructed a coffin from their wagon bed and burned brush atop the grave to hide it from Indians. When Patrick Alfred Watson (1810-1894) of North Carolina bought the land in 1853, he set aside a one-acre cemetery. In 1870 Watson gave land and a structure was built for Watson Community's first school and church, later West Fork Presbyterian Church. In 1956 Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike was routed around the cemetery and the church was relocated. (1979)

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