Detailed Cemetery Information


CEMETERY NAME: Scrutchfield

ADDITIONAL/ALTERNATE NAMES: Searsville; Maple

BCHC CEMETERY ID NUMBER: 106

THC CEMETERY NUMBER: BQ-C001

THC ATLAS NUMBER: 7035000105

HISTORICAL DESIGNATION: Texas Historical Marker (1999), Historic Texas Cemetery (2001-01-31)

NEAREST CITY OR COMMUNITY: Valley Mills

USGS 7-1/2 MINUTE QUAD MAP: Mosheim (3197-314)

LATITUDE: 31.66500322

LONGITUDE: -97.51584730

SURVEY NAME AND ABSTRACT NUMBER: Michael Boren/A-86
 
MAP LOCATION (centroid of cemetery): 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:

Valley Mills. Located NW of Valley Mills, 3-4 miles on Hwy 6, turn left on Hwy 854. There is a sign on the gate.

BCHC 1985 CEMETERY BOOK: Vol. I, pg. 114

Note: 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: 54   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 1980. At the time, it was on the Prosser farm.


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