FIRST Burial in Eakins Cemetery - Ponder, TX
N 33° 08.347 W 097° 19.114
14S E 656834 N 3667968
A Texas Historical Marker in historic Eakins Cemetery, near Ponder, TX, indicates that Angelina Rayburn was the first burial here after she died in an accident in the late 1850s.
Waymark Code: WMR9VF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/28/2016
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Ms. Rayburn's grave is marked by a modern, red granite headstone that has been weathered by Mother Nature. Its inscription is:
Katie Angelina
Rayburn
Dates Unknown
The 1995 Texas Historical Marker provides some background:
Noah (1810-1868) and Susan (1816-1878) Eakins and their family came to this part of Denton County from Kentucky in 1855. This cemetery was established on their land about 1855-58 when a neighbor, Angelina Rayburn, was fatally burned while cooking on an open fire. Lula Q. Porter, infant child of another pioneer family, was buried in the graveyard in 1861, and the site became a community burial ground known as Eakins Cemetery. It is the final resting place of the Eakins family and many other area pioneers and their descendants. It continues to serve the rural community.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1855
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