Watson Chapel Cemetery
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ggmorton
N 30° 40.660 W 093° 48.738
15R E 422192 N 3394161
A marker describing a cemetery just off of TX 87 in Bleakwood.
Waymark Code: WM95NM
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/02/2010
Views: 4
Marker erected by: Texas Historical Commission
Texas Historical Commission Atlas data:
Index Entry: Watson Chapel Cemetery
City: Bleakwood
County: Newton
Subject Codes: graveyards
Year Marker Erected: 1993
Designations: n/a
Marker Location: 1 mi. S of Bleakwood on SH 87
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 11139
Marker Text:
Prominent early settler George Adams and his wife, Orinda Hester Scott, donated land for this cemetery in 1883. Although the gravestone of Tilman Scott Ingram, who was reinterred here from another cemetery, bears an earlier death date (1880), the first recorded burials were those of John Edwards in 1883 and Orinda Adams' parents, Hester Ann Scott in 1885 and James M. Scott in 1887. Many people who worked in the area's lumber industry are interred here. Watson Chapel Cemetery is maintained by an association of descendants of persons buried here.
(1994)
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