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 Barron Cemetery
N 33° 31.161 W 096° 56.879
14S E 690575 N 3710749
Texas Historical Marker commemorating the Barron Cemetery, a family cemetery that appears to have been abandoned, and is badly overgrown.
Waymark Code: WME1PR
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/22/2012
Views: 9
Marker Number: 7336
Marker Text:
Named for John Barron (1831-87), a Civil War veteran who came here from Virginia and bought a good farm in 1870. Married first to Delilah Ward (d. 1860s), then to Margaret McElroy, he had fifteen children. About 1875 he gave land for a church-school building and this community cemetery, where he and some other members of his family were later buried. William Jenkins (1829-78), who also was a Confederate veteran, is earliest known among some six dozen interments. Burial ground, closed about 1920, is cared for by descendants who have formed (1971) the Barron Cemetery Association. (1974)
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