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Grape Creek Cemetery

Corsicana, Navarro County

Marker Text

G. W. Eliot donated land at this site for a school, Methodist church, parsonage, and graveyard. Burials in the cemetery began about 1881. The Doolen, Duncan, Eliot, Humphries, Metcalf, Rakestraw, Smith, Stokes, Wimberly, and other families lived in the area at that time. The school consolidated with Navarro in 1928 and the building was relocated. The church meetinghouse was destroyed by fire in 1975. The next year a steel tabernacle was erected. It serves as the location for the annual memorial services of the Grape Creek Cemetery Association.

Marker Details

Address
Location Description from Corsicana, take I-45 about 8 miles to CR SE 1050, go 1.3 mi. east to SE 1020, go south about 1.1 mi. to cemetery
Marker # 7206
Dedicated 1980
Size, Type 18" x 28"
Code cemetery
Latitude, Longitude 31.981408, -96.386148

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