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 Prairie View Cemetery
N 31° 40.276 W 097° 44.350
14R E 619519 N 3504688
Texas Historical Marker at Prairie View Cemetery, about six miles north of Turnersville on Coryell County Rd 209, noting the establishment of the Prairie View community and providing some history of this still-active cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM18XTH
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/19/2023
Views: 2
Marker Number: 20068
Marker Text:
In 1886, David Perry Hollingsworth bought 166 acres in the Thomas W. Nibbs Survey, and the Prairie View community soon developed Prairie View Primitive Baptist Church, Harmony Chapel Methodist Church and the Weeks School served the community. The earliest known burials here were William Rowe (1823-1889) and S.A. Loper (1828-1889). In 1903, David and Mary Catherine Hollingsworth officially deeded a three-acre graveyard. Notable gravestones include one Woodmen of the World marker, concrete slabs and borders, and military markers beginning with Pvt. Henry G. Oxford (1893-1918), who died in the sinking of the SS Tuscania during World War I. The Prairie View Cemetery Association maintains this remembrance of a historic Coryell County community.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2016
Marker is Property of the State of Texas
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