Detailed Cemetery Information

CEMETERY NAME: Old Valley Mills

ADDITIONAL/ALTERNATE NAMES:

BCHC CEMETERY ID NUMBER: 88

THC CEMETERY NUMBER: BQ-C028

THC ATLAS NUMBER: 7035002805

HISTORICAL DESIGNATION: none

NEAREST CITY OR COMMUNITY: Valley Mills

USGS 7-1/2 MINUTE QUAD MAP: Valley Mills (3197-423)

LATITUDE: 31.67358460

LONGITUDE: -97.47311456

SURVEY NAME AND ABSTRACT NUMBER: J. McClennan/A-515

MAP LOCATION (centroid of cemetery): click here to show on Google Maps

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BCHC DIRECTIONS:

THC DIRECTIONS:

About 2 miles NE of Valley Mills on private property. Lat: 314024N Long: 0972822W.

BCHC 1985 CEMETERY BOOK: Vol. I, pg. 34

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: 47 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. It is on a hill overlooking Valley Mills. The town was originally on this side of the river. After the town moved to the other side of the river, a new cemetery was started there.

The land for this cemetery was given by Dr. E. P. Booth, but not record can be found. Some say this cemetery had over 200 graves in it. Many graves were not marked and the original wooden markers have rotted away. Many graves cannot be identified. The cemetery is on private property, requiring permission and direction from the owners.

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