Eakins Cemetery
N 33° 08.413 W 097° 19.089
14S E 656871 N 3668090
Historical marker for Eakins Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM62MT
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/22/2009
Views: 19
This marker can be found by taking hwy 156 to cemetery road.
Marker Number: 1331
Marker Text:
Noah (1810-1868) and Susan (1816-1878) Eakins and their family came to this part of Denton County from Kentucky in 1855. This cemetery was established on their land about 1855-58 when a neighbor, Angelina Rayburn, was fatally burned while cooking on an open fire. Lula Q. Porter, infant child of another pioneer family, was buried in the graveyard in 1861, and the site became a community burial ground known as Eakins Cemetery. It is the final resting place of the Eakins family and many other area pioneers and their descendants. It continues to serve the rural community. (1995)
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