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Lanes Chapel and Cemetery

Clifton, Bosque County

Marker Text

Pioneer area settler Joshua McCuistion donated land at this site for a Methodist chapel to serve the community of Hollis Prairie. Completed about 1880 adjacent to a schoolhouse, it was built by John R. Lane and his sons, for whom the settlement was later named. The oldest marked grave in the church cemetery is that of Plonzo "Pompey" Cox (1840-1880). Regular worship services here were discontinued in 1960 and the Lanes Chapel Memorial Association was established to restore and maintain the building and grounds. A homecoming is held at this site each June. (1981)

Marker Details

Address
Location Description from Clifton, take SH 6 south about 3.9 miles, take FM 2602 south about 9.6 miles to cemetery
Marker # 3034
Dedicated 1981
Size, Type 18" x 28"
Code cemetery; Methodist (Methodist Episcopal and United Methodist) denomination; churches
Latitude, Longitude 31.666819, -97.592136

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