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Clover Hill Cemetery

Quitman, Wood County

Marker Text

Families from Georgia and Alabama settled this land in 1856. The next year they chose this hill which was covered with yellow clover for construction of the Clover Hill Baptist Church. In 1868 "Little Buddy," son of G. H. and Sallie Pogue, was the first burial in this community cemetery. Soon a stranger died of smallpox and was interred here. The oldest marked gravestone is that of Martha Benton (1840-1862). She was buried, according to custom, near her home and later the family moved the headstone here. In 1926 the cemetery association was organized. (1979)

Marker Details

Address FM 69, 5 mi. N
Location Description FM 69, 5 mi. N of Quitman
Marker # 8952
Dedicated 1979
Size, Type 18" x 28"
Code cemetery
Latitude, Longitude 32.862956, -95.422681

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