Briar Creek Cemetery
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member QuarrellaDeVil
N 33° 31.574 W 097° 53.618
14S E 602737 N 3710174
Briar Creek Cemetery, southwest of Bowie, TX, with burials of some of the area's earliest pioneers. To visit, take Texas 59 southwest from Bowie to FM 2583, and then go south on FM 2583 about .6 mile to the cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMDG0F
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/11/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
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Marker Number: 504

Marker Text:
Settlers began arriving in this area in increased numbers after the Civil War with the opening of rail lines and the cessation of Indian conflicts. Many of the pioneers are interred here. The first burials, in the late 1870s, were for Kentucky native G.W. Simmons and for an infant of W.B. and Sarah Jane (Herndon) Dooley. Land for the cemetery was later deeded by Simmons' sister Margaret and her husband, G.W. Burnett. The early Briar Creek School was located on adjacent land by the 1880s, but only the cemetery remains as a reminder of the area's earliest settlers. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986
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