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 Red Oak Cemetery
N 32° 30.124 W 096° 48.632
14S E 705692 N 3598199
Texas Historical Marker commemorating the history of the Red Oak Cemetery, originally a family cemetery for the Kemble family, who were area pioneers.
Waymark Code: WMGTB0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/07/2013
Views: 11
Marker Number: 7142
Marker Text:
Originally known as the Kemble Cemetery, this graveyard began as a family burial ground. Abraham Kemble acquired the land on which the cemetery is located about 1860. He and his wife Mary were both buried here in 1867. In 1892 Kemble descendants gave the land to Liberty Baptist Church, later renamed First Baptist Church, Red Oak. The cemetery became a public burial ground after the turn of the century. Those interred here include generations of Kemble family members, area pioneers, and veterans of several wars, beginning with the Civil War. (1988)
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