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CEMETERY NAME: Valley Mills ADDITIONAL/ALTERNATE NAMES: BCHC CEMETERY ID NUMBER: 122 THC CEMETERY NUMBER: BQ-C027 THC ATLAS NUMBER: 7035002705 HISTORICAL DESIGNATION: Texas Historical Marker (2018), Historic Texas Cemetery (2017-03-03) NEAREST CITY OR COMMUNITY: Valley Mills USGS 7-1/2 MINUTE QUAD MAP: Valley Mills (3197-423) LATITUDE: 31.66292485 LONGITUDE: -97.47768372 SURVEY NAME AND ABSTRACT NUMBER: John Hamilton/A-381 | |
| 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 within city limits of Valley Mills off Hwy 6-NW side of town. BCHC 1985 CEMETERY BOOK: Vol. I, pg. 36Note: 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: 2944 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 originally surveyed by the BCHC in 1983. This cemetery is within the city limits of Valley Mills on the northwest side of town next to the elementary school and is visible from SH 6. It has three gates. The first land was deeded in 1891 by A. W. and F. J. Sears with the stipulation that a good fence be kept around it and that it be used as a graveyard. The trustees were to use the money from the sale of lots to keep it in repair. Certain lots were to be kept for those not able to pay. In 1908, the Cemetery Association added another acre of land, including "a plot in which H. C. Harrison is buried and the part in which the infant of John Golden is buried." Since 1917, at least two more additions have been added. |
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