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9845 Capt. F. Marion Hastings take SH 37 about 5 mi. south to FM 900, go west about 2 mi. to CR 3170, go south to Pleasant Hill Cemetery (Nov. 17, 1823 - April 25, 1905) Confederate veteran. Enlisting in 1861, Dade County, Mo., served under Generals Sterling Price, Joseph O. Shelby, ... 12925 Clearwater Baptist Church 7 mi. N on FM 1448 Clearwater Baptist Church In the mid-19th century, early area settlers labored in sawmills and over crops, including corn, potatoes and cotton. In ... 9837 Cypress Church and Cemetery from Mt. Vernon take SH 37 about 8.5 mi. SW to CR 3230, go west about 1 mi. On August 28, 1851, the Associated Cypress Baptist Church was founded. The congregation constructed a meetinghouse on this property which belonged ...

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9839 Fairview Church and Cemetery 11 mi. north of Mt. Vernon on SH 37, then 3.5 mi. west on FM 71 Kentucky native and cattleman Julian N. Kimberlin (1848-1932) donated five acres of land here in 1880 to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for ... 9840 First Baptist Church of Mount Vernon 300 block of Kaufman St. at Gregg St. Led by Baptist missionary William M. Pickett, this congregation was organized on Oct. 5, 1849, one year after the Mount Vernon Post Office was established. ... 9841 First United Methodist Church of Mount Vernon NE corner S. Kaufman and Majors streets on private property. Marker faces S. Kaufman Street. Organized 1855, with 13 charter members: Mrs. Joel Arrington, Capt. and Mrs. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Parchman, ... 9843 Franklin County in traffic triangle of US 67 and SH 37 junction, 1 mi. west of Courthouse Formed from Titus County, created March 8, 1875; organized April 30, 1875. Named in honor of Benjamin C. Franklin, 1805-1873, hero of San Jacinto, ... 9842 Franklin County Courthouse Franklin County Courthouse grounds Mt. Vernon was established in 1849 on land donated by Stephen and Rebecca Keith, and a public square was surveyed in the 24-acre plat. When Franklin ...

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15550 Good Hope Cemetery Scroggins 9844 Gray Rock Cemetery Eastbound I-30 access road, S side 3 mi. E of Exit 150 (Ripley Rd.), 0.3 mi. E of CR SE 4130 Unmarked graves here may date from the 1840s, when the nearby town of Gray Rock was settled along a frontier highway. Of the 411 marked graves, the ...

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14434 Hagansport Cemetery Hagansport

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9838 J. A. Drummond Farm Home MARKER REPORTED MISSING 3/2011 Application: Built between 1854 and 1857. This house and farm have been in the same family since the house was built. The shutters, outside columns, ... 9846 Joshua Foster Johnson Mt. Vernon City Cemetery, US 67 (Main St.) on east side of town (September 27, 1824 - February 15, 1877) Came to Texas from Tennessee in 1845, settling (1846) near site of Mount Vernon, which he helped found (as ...

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9847 Killingsworth Home 4932 SE Access Rd. Built 1859. Originally whitewashed. Water well on porch. 2 double fireplaces. Restored 1939 by Killingsworth family. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark ...

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11885 New Hope Baptist Church 12 mi. SE on FM 115, 3 mi. SW on FM 1448 In 1875, the Rev. John J. Jones, a circuit rider, organized a small Baptist congregation of 30 members in the newly formed Franklin County. The group ...

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9848 Pleasant Hill Methodist Church and Cemetery from Mt. Vernon take SH 37 about 5 mi. south to FM 900, go west about 2 mi. to CR 3170, go south to cemetery About 1850, near a spring at the foot of this hill, early settlers of this area gathered for Methodist camp meetings. According to local tradition ... 18790 Providence Cemetery CR SE 3070, N side between SH 37 and FM 115 Established in 1845, Providence Cemetery served as a burial ground for the congregation of Providence Primitive Baptist Church. The church was organized ...

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9849 Ripley Massacre US 67 at Ripley Creek Crossing, 4 mi. east of Mt. Vernon Ambrose Ripley and his wife Rachel (Wood) brought their family to Texas in 1837, settling near here in what was then Red River County. They established ... 9850 Rockhill Cemetery from Mt. Vernon take SH 37 1 mi. south to FM 21, go south 2.5 mi. to FM 2723, go south about 3 mi. to FM 3122, go east about 1.5 mi. to cemetery This burial ground served the farming community of Rockhill, settled after the Civil War (1861-65). The high childhood mortality rate of that era ... 9851 Rutherford Drugstore at Main St. Oldest business in Mt. Vernon, opened in 1869 by John Griffith Lock Rutherford (1851-1936), Texas-born great grandson of American Revolution general ...

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9852 The Wright-Vaughan House 311 East Main Street Residence of Mt. Vernon's first physician, William C. Wright (1820-1890), a North Carolinian who married Mary Rutherford in Tennessee and moved here ...