Detailed Cemetery Information


CEMETERY NAME: Knowles

ADDITIONAL/ALTERNATE NAMES:

BCHC CEMETERY ID NUMBER: 71

THC CEMETERY NUMBER: BQ-C087

THC ATLAS NUMBER: 7035008705

HISTORICAL DESIGNATION: none

NEAREST CITY OR COMMUNITY: Valley Mills

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

LATITUDE: 31.65982981

LONGITUDE: -97.56909963

SURVEY NAME AND ABSTRACT NUMBER:
 
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BCHC DIRECTIONS:

THC DIRECTIONS:

About 600-700 yards upstream from the Rock Church Cemetery on Hog Creek.

BCHC 1985 CEMETERY BOOK: Vol. I, pg. 122

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: 6   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 on 06 May 1979. At the time, it was described as being on the old Dake place about 8 miles from Valley Mills and about 300 yards north east of the Old Rock Church on Hog Creek. It was enclosed by a fence.


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