FIRST Burial in Small Cemetery - Edgewood, TX
N 32° 44.862 W 095° 51.435
15S E 232284 N 3626930
A Texas Historical Marker at the gate to Small Cemetery indicates that Mary Allen was the first burial here, back in 1899. Small Cemetery is on Van Zandt County Road 3701, just northwest of FM 859 and north of Edgewood, TX.
Waymark Code: WMQ27F
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/05/2015
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Mrs. Allen's headstone is broken into two pieces, with the top sitting on the ground. It depicts a hand with the index finger pointing upwards, to Heaven, with "In Memory Of" across the top. The very top of the other section of the headstone is difficult to read in one spot because of the break. It says "Mary" and then perhaps "Emmer", a localized pronunciation of her middle name, "Emma", followed by:
Wife of R.A. Allen
Born
Sept. 23, 1875
Died
Apr. 12, 1899
Gone but not forgot
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The Texas Historical Marker provides some background:
Small community was settled by the 1870s; the first school was opened one-half mile east of this site about 1889. A Baptist church was organized in 1895. Three years later Willis R. Henson donated land for a cemetery on this site; its first recorded burial was that of Mrs. Mary Allen. A post office was established in the mercantile store of William Henry Luster in January 1900. Despite closure of the post office in 1907, the town continued to thrive, boasting a Church of Christ and a Methodist church, a drug store, doctor's office, barber shop, photographer, gin, grist mill, blacksmith and woodworking shop. Two churches merged with congregations in nearby Edgewood in the 1930s and 1940s and the school merged with the Edgewood school in 1949. The cemetery and Baptist church were all that remained of Small in 1999.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 04/13/1899
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