Bosqueville Cemetery
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WalksfarTX
N 31° 36.821 W 097° 11.866
14R E 670952 N 3499026
Black metal marker on a metal pole just to the left of the cemetery gates.
Waymark Code: WMWTNZ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/12/2017
Views: 6
Marker tells about the founding of the cemetery and some of the historical people who are buried here.
Marker Number: 467
Marker Text:
Burials began here as early as 1850 on 10 acres given by Little Berry White for a school and cemetery. A log schoolhouse at this site in 1853-54 served the Methodist and Baptist churches as a meeting place. Some of the unmarked graves were those of slaves. The first marked graves, dated 1856, were those of David Smith Kornegay, a veteran of San Jacinto, and his mother-in-law, Bridget Lamb McGary. Another San Jacinto soldier, Alexander McKinza, and thirty-one veterans of the Confederate Army are buried here. In 1908, heirs of Dr. N.J.W. Wortham gave 1.5 acres. (1979)
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