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 Long Creek Cemetery
N 32° 33.037 W 097° 44.513
14S E 618124 N 3602168
Texas Historical Marker at the Long Creek Cemetery, a cemetery that is the last vestige of two area communities, noting its origins going into the 1860s. It is still active, located on FM 167, east of where Center Mill was.
Waymark Code: WMY8AJ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/09/2018
Views: 3
Marker Number: 16394
Marker Text:
This burial ground, also known as Temple Hall Cemetery, is the last remaining vestige of two early pioneer communities in Hood County. It is named for Long Creek, also known as Bee Creek, which runs through the rich farmland of this region. The cemetery served Temple Hall, a community organized by the 1850s, which was thought to be named for an early Masonic lodge. Residents of Center Mill, another area settlement that existed in the mid-to-late 1800s, also used the graveyard, which originated on land donated by area settler John Farrell.
The earliest known burials in Long Creek Cemetery are for the Haley children, who died in 1864 and 1865, respectively. Others buried here include school superintendent, Hood County judge and amateur historian, W.L. Dent; Parker County commissioner Edward C. Atwood; and Hood County Commissioner Albert Hall. Also buried here is Thomas Parkinson, who settled in this area around 1859. He built a grist mill on Long Creek and later a cotton gin. Other interments include early settlers, prominent community leaders and veterans of conflicts dating to the Civil War. The cemetery features hand-carved markers, curbing, ledger stones, vertical stones, obelisks, grave slabs, and Masonic, Odd Fellows, Eastern Star and Woodmen of the World grave markers.
The Long Creek Cemetery Association, which formed as early as 1909, cares for the burial ground. Today, Long Creek Cemetery is the last visible reminder of early area settlements and serves as a record of the pioneers who settled this region of Hood County.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2009
Marker is Property of the State of Texas
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