Morrow Chapel Cemetery
N 32° 34.435 W 096° 10.566
14S E 765103 N 3607572
The state historic marker for the peaceful Morrow Chapel Cemetery in Ola TX
Waymark Code: WMWWVB
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/24/2017
Views: 2
Morrow Chapel Cemetery is located in the small Kaufman County community of Ola, near the intersection of SH 245 and the FM 2515, behind the Morrow Chapel Church of Christ.
Marker Number: 8537
Marker Text:
This burial ground originally served members of the Morrow family, early area settlers. It was first used in 1853 for the interment of Alexander Morrow, an infant. In 1892 his mother Mary Elizabeth Morrow (1812-94) gave the site and adjoining land to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who built a sanctuary here named in her honor. The church disbanded in the early 1920s and the chapel later housed classes of the Ola School District. In the 1930s a cemetery association was formed under the leadership of Mrs. Henry LaRoe and Mr. and Mrs. Basil Barton. (1981)
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