Dougherty Community Cemetery
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member QuarrellaDeVil
N 32° 56.349 W 095° 46.174
15S E 241059 N 3647946
Texas Historical Marker in the Dougherty Community Cemetery, noting both the establishment of the community as well as this cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMNHEB
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/18/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuesterMark
Views: 4

Marker Number: 10855

Marker Text:
James W. Dougherty and his wife Isabella brought their family to Texas from Kentucky in the late 1840s. Joining the colony of Charles Fenton Mercer, they settled in this area. In 1851 they bought 640 acres here, where Dougherty was a farmer and a tanner. In 1877 their son Robert N. Dougherty donated one acre at this site for public use as a community burial ground. Two additional tracts of land, deeded to the cemetery association in 1935 and 1964, were acquired from A. V. and Della Terry. (1980)


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