Detailed Cemetery Information

CEMETERY NAME: Pinnell

ADDITIONAL/ALTERNATE NAMES:

BCHC CEMETERY ID NUMBER: 95

THC CEMETERY NUMBER: BQ-C095

THC ATLAS NUMBER: 7035009505

HISTORICAL DESIGNATION: none

NEAREST CITY OR COMMUNITY: Valley Mills

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

LATITUDE: 31.66806805

LONGITUDE: -97.60515904

SURVEY NAME AND ABSTRACT NUMBER:

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BCHC DIRECTIONS:

THC DIRECTIONS:

Lanes Chapel Community; 9 miles NW of Valley Mills on FM 2602.

BCHC 1985 CEMETERY BOOK: Vol. I, pg. 107

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: 12 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: The cemetery was investigated by the BCHC around 1985. It is located in the Lane's Chapel community near FM 2602 on the Joe Bearden place (in 1985). There is a spot of ground, fifty feet by thirty feet, referred to as the Pinnell Graveyard. Only the landowner knows the exact location. In 1859, Horace Pinnell owned land here near Pinnell Spring. In 1914, J. W. Cox deeded this area to J. M. Robertson, a lawyer in Meridian, "for the purpose of preserving the old Pinnell Graveyard."

No markers nor dates and names are found. Evidence still existed in 1985 of about twelve grave plots, with rock for the perimeter. Mr. and Mrs. Bearden, who had known the place since childhood, remembered when two gravehouses were intact. They were made of logs about three logs high, just over the graves, with a gable roof and one door in the end. Finally, these rotted. Exactly who is buried there is not known, perhaps some of the Pinnells. Some say relatives of J. M. Robertson.

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