Lee Cemetery
N 33° 31.991 W 095° 46.146
15S E 242849 N 3713833
Texas Historical Marker and Historic Texas Cemetery Medallion at Lee Cemetery, providing some history of this small family cemetery, located about 4/10 of a mile off of Lamar County Rd 25300, about five miles southwest of Roxton.
Waymark Code: WM18XTJ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/19/2023
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The road gets quite narrow in this area, so please be careful where you park. The listed coordinates are between the historical marker and the HTC Medallion, and the gate you're going to cross is
here.
Marker Number: 12011 and 14432
Marker Text:
Herbert J. Lee of Virginia moved to this area by 1859. One-year-old Georgiannia W. Derrick died in 1860 and was buried on the Lee property. Herbert Lee designated the land for a cemetery in his 1865 will. At some time after May 1908, two stones were erected bearing the names of George W. and William B. Derrick, who died in 1831. Whether or not the two pioneers are interred on this site remains unknown. Most graves are dated between 1870 and 1890. Money was tight during the Reconstruction era, which may explain the lack of ornate stones. An underground vault in the center of the graveyard filled with dirt and the markers within the vault deteriorated. At least one grave on this site it that of a citizen of The Republic of Texas. Others were veterans of the Civil War. The last burial took place in 1913. (2000)
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