McCombs Cemetery - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

At one time this cemetery included 2.3 acres. Many of the markers have been destroyed by weather and soil erosion, while vandalism has destroyed others. In 1990 the McCombs Cemetery Association was formed to protect and restore the grounds. To date 50 gravesites have been identified.

There is a very good write-up about the cemetery at this Web site:
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The cemetery is located off S Garden Ridge Blvd. in Flower Mound. Turn west on St. Gallen Ln, then turn south on Wagner Dr. and continue for approx. 200 feet. The historical marker and entrance to the cemetery are located on the east side of Wagner Dr.

Marker Number: 11846 Marker Text: The history of this small community cemetery dates to the 1850s, before Denton was selected as county seat. The site contains graves of early pioneers of the Lewisville-Flower Mound area. Settlers included Nehemiah Wade Boyd (1823-1856), his wife Susan McCombs Boyd (1824-1917), their six children, family matriarch Mary Nowlin McCombs (1803-1867), and members of Nowlin, Sigler and Rivers families who arrived in 1855 from Tennessee. Nehemiah Boyd died suddenly of pneumonia after being chilled by a blue norther while building a log cabin for his family, and was buried on land donated by his brother-in-law, John Mathis McCombs. Susan Boyd later gave birth to their seventh child and first Texan, George Taylor Boyd (1856-1933). Although Nehemiah Boyd's burial was long believed to be the first, archeological evidence suggests as many as 100 individuals may have been buried here and that the site was a community cemetery in use between the 1850s and 1890s. Typically graves were marked with native sandstone or brick. Boyd descendants formed the McCombs Cemetery Association in 1990 to protect the burial site from encroaching development. (1997)

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