EARLIEST Marked Graves in McLarry Cemetery - McKinney, TX
N 33° 14.371 W 096° 37.666
14S E 721029 N 3680348
A Texas Historical Marker at the front of McLarry Cemetery -- east of US 75 on Collin County Road 273 -- notes that the earliest marked burials here are of two children, Henry E. and Adella M. Hall, who died on the same day in 1870.
Waymark Code: WMT30B
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/16/2016
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There is no indication as to what occurred that the children died on the same day. Their marble grave marker features a small arch supported by two columns, with each child's information, and the family name, "Hall", on the plinth. There are also marble footstones, although they are out of place, standing next to the headstone. The inscriptions are:
Henry E.
Hall
Born
Sept. 9, 1863
Died
Feb. 10, 1870
--
Adella M.
Hall
Born
Mar. 15, 1858
Died
Feb. 10, 1870
--
The 1981 Texas Historical Marker provides some background, noting that there was at least one earlier burial here, which is unmarked:
This site was first used as a cemetery in 1851 when property owner John R. Jones buried his infant son here. The land was later donated as a public burial ground for the pioneer settlers of the surrounding Wilmeth settlement by Mary Virginia Dunn McLarry and her father Robert A. McLarry. The earliest marked graves are those of a brother and sister, Henry E. and Adella M. Hall, who died in 1870. Also buried here is J.B. Wilmeth, for whom the community was named. The site is now used by descendants of the pioneer area families.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 02/13/1870
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