Cooper, Delta County
SETTLERS FIRST CAME TO MOUNT JOY IN 1836 AND THE TOWN DEVELOPED INTO A THRIVING FARMING SETTLEMENT. PRESBYTERIAN AND BAPTIST COMMUNITY MEMBERS ESTABLISHED MOUNT JOY BAPTIST CHURCH IN 1873. A METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH ORGANIZED THE FOLLOWING YEAR. AT ITS PEAK IN THE 1880s, THE COMMUNITY HAD THREE STEAM-POWERED COTTON GINS, A GRISTMILL, SHINGLE FACTORY AND STORES, AND STAGECOACHES LINKED IT TO NEARBY SETTLEMENTS. A POST OFFICE CLOSED IN 1907. THE FIRST RECORDED BURIAL IN MOUNT JOY CEMETERY (ALSO REFERRED TO AS STATEN CEMETERY) WAS OF MARY GARRETT IN 1873. IN 1891 W.B. CHAMBERS OFFICIALLY DEEDED THE LAND FOR USE AS A CEMETERY. HISTORIC TEXAS CEMETERY – 2010