Detailed Cemetery Information
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CEMETERY NAME: Abernathy ADDITIONAL/ALTERNATE NAMES: BCHC CEMETERY ID NUMBER: 1 THC CEMETERY NUMBER: BQ-C119 THC ATLAS NUMBER: 7035011905 HISTORICAL DESIGNATION: none NEAREST CITY OR COMMUNITY: Meridian USGS 7-1/2 MINUTE QUAD MAP: Iredell (3197-334) LATITUDE: 31.91593258 LONGITUDE: -97.75486512 SURVEY NAME AND ABSTRACT NUMBER: | |
| MAP LOCATION (vicinity only): click here to show on Google Maps Map Note: The location shown with the red marker on Google Maps will be the location of either the centroid of the cemetery if the exact location is known or the general vicinity if the exact location is not known. Google Maps may also place its own marker on the map (usually in green) but it is not necessarily reliable. BCHC DIRECTIONS:THC DIRECTIONS: 31.91597 -97.75487 GPS at the exact 8-mile point west of Meridian on County Road 2130). BCHC 1985 CEMETERY BOOK: Vol. II, pg. 142Note: The two-volume Bosque County Cemetery Records listed all known cemeteries and all persons buried in these cemeteries at the time of publication. The information included dates from the gravestones and, in some cases, the inscriptions from the gravestones. Although these volumes are now out-of-print, they are available for reference at the Bosque County Collection, and the information contained in these volumes has been converted to an online database searchable by name. NUMBER OF GRAVES: 4 click here to list burials\nLINK TO TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION ATLAS DETAILS: THC Atlas Web Page LINK TO FIND-A-GRAVE ENTRY: Find-A-Grave Web Page NOTES: This cemetery was surveyed by the BCHC in 1986. It is located about seven miles west of Meridian on a place owned in 1986 by G. R. Merriman of Plano. Only parts of an old fence remained and there were no identifiable graves. The Abernathy family lived there from about 1875 to 1924. From the Meridian Tribune and from a neighbor, at least three persons have been identified as being buried there. |
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