Good Hope Cemetery Improvement - Parvin, TX
N 33° 14.971 W 096° 52.231
14S E 698383 N 3680971
A plaque at the main gate of the Good Hope Cemetery indicates that this was the site of an Eagle Scout project completed in 2004. Good Hope Cemetery is located in the Parvin community near Prosper, TX.
Waymark Code: WMHAMF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/16/2013
Views: 6
The plaque has the following text:
Boy Scout
Eagle Project
Completed
December 18, 2004
by
Salvador Jonathon Buentello
Troop 289
Prosper, TX
Unfortunately, there are no further details as to the nature of the project, which may have involved the main gate, and one might expect that a general cleanup of the cemetery was also part of the project.
A Texas Historical Marker is just inside the main cemetery gate, and it provides some background:
Attracted to the area by its fertile soil, good water supply, and abundant building materials, pioneers from Tennessee, Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, and Wisconsin settled here in the 1850s. Their colony, located on the Ben Rue Survey, was first known as the Rue Settlement.
Members of the Rue family were probably the first to be buried on the acreage that now makes up this cemetery, but the earliest legible grave marker, that of John Phillips, is dated 1870. More than 80 burials took place in the 19th century, reflecting the hardship of pioneer life. The name Good Hope was taken after the Good Hope Baptist Church organized in 1875. The settlement also became known as Good Hope, although at times it has been called Parvin as well.
In 1903, a cemetery association was formed to care for the graveyard. One year later Ben Rue (then a resident of Fannin County) formally transferred the four acres he had set aside for community purposes to the cemetery association.
After area churches disbanded and the school closed in 1949, the community population declined. The Good Hope Cemetery thus stands as one of the few physical reminders of the early area pioneers and of the community that once thrived here.
Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986
Name of Eagle Scout: Salvador Jonathon Buentello
Project Completion Date: 12/18/2004
Troop Number: 289
Troop Location: Not listed
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