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Proctor Cemetery

Proctor, Comanche County

Marker Text

The land on which this cemetery is located was once part of a farm owned by the pioneer Larkin Gyger family. The first person interred here was W.B. Long (1817-1875), a Methodist minister and neighbor of the Gyger family. As the small town of Proctor began to grow with the arrival of the railroad in the 1890s, this gradually became a community graveyard. Fifty-seven of the graves are from the nineteenth century. Also buried here are nine veterans of the Civil War. A cemetery association, organized in 1940, maintains the historic burial ground. (1988)

Marker Details

Address 751 CR 335
Location Description CR 335, 1.1 mi. NE of intersection of US 377 and FM 1476
Marker # 4128
Dedicated 1988
Size, Type 18" x 28"
Code cemetery
Latitude, Longitude 32.002012, -98.413482

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