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 Derden Cemetery Outhouse - Derden, TX
N 32° 10.902 W 097° 19.689
14S E 657613 N 3561801
This neglected one-seater sits in the trees behind Derden Cemetery, Derden, TX.
Waymark Code: WMJ8BJ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/10/2013
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Derden Cemetery is a Historic Texas Cemetery, virtually inactive but well-maintained, with over 750 burials. A Texas Historical Marker here says:
This burial ground was already in use well before the local settlement of Brushy Knob took the name of Derden around 1881. The earliest marked grave is that of young Elizabeth Mobley (1851-1858), but older unmarked graves likely exist. Known to have arrived here in the mid-1850s were members of the Ince family, including George Washington Ince (1830-1906) and wife Sarah Ann Paralee Calvert Ince (1833-1912), who helped develop the area. Many of their descendants, as well as those of other pioneer families such as the Blackshears, Kimberlins, Russells, Stocktons, and Whites, are laid to rest here.
The Handbook of Texas Online says this about Derden itself:
Derden, on a spur off Farm Road 2488 midway between Covington and Blum in northwestern Hill County, has served area farmers and ranchers as a school and church community throughout its history. The settlement began to form in the mid-1850s when the Ince brothers arrived in the area and built a cotton gin. In the following years the community gained an additional gin, as well as two merchandise stores, a drugstore, and a church. Later its settlers built a schoolhouse. The settlement was originally called Brushy Knob because of its location near a high wooded hill; it apparently adopted the name Derden sometime after the Civil War, supposedly in honor of a prominent citizen. Between 1875 and 1879 Derden had an active Grange chapter. A post office operated in the community from 1881 to 1903. Derden was the home of an independent school district until 1919, when Derden, Oak Hill, and Old Union Hill consolidated under the name Union Hill. In 1970 a cemetery remained at the site.
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