Wood Cemetery
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N 31° 34.946 W 097° 51.337
14R E 608583 N 3494720
This post-mounted subject marker stands in front of the flagpole and bulletin board in the cemetery on CR 194 in Jonesboro.
Waymark Code: WMPWE0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/29/2015
Views: 3
Marker erected by: Texas Historical Commission
Texas Historical Commission Atlas data:
Index Entry Wood
City Jonesboro
County Coryell
Subject Codes graveyards
Year Marker Erected 1994
Marker Location From Jonesboro, Take SH 36 SE about 2 mi to CR 194, then go south about 1 mi
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 5896
Marker Text:
This cemetery, probably named for noted pioneer educator D. R. Wood, was established with the 1858 burial of Sarah E. Shipman, wife of prominent local rancher John K. Shipman. More than 20 additional burials were recorded before John Shipman deeded 11.5 acres here for cemetery, church, and school purposes in 1877. The cemetery contains grave sites of many area pioneer settlers and their descendants and veterans of the Civil War and World Wars I and II. Wood Cemetery remains active and is maintained by an association of descendants of persons buried here. (1994)
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