Details for Morrow Chapel Cemetery

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5257008537

Data

Marker Number 8537
Atlas Number 5257008537
Marker Title Morrow Chapel Cemetery
Index Entry Morrow Chapel Cemetery
Address
City Kaufman
County Kaufman
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 764997
UTM Northing 3607556
Subject Codes cemetery
Marker Year 1981
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location 8 miles E of Kaufman off SH 243, near intersection with FM 2515
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Text This burial ground originally served members of the Morrow family, early area settlers. It was first used in 1853 for the interment of Alexander Morrow, an infant. In 1892 his mother Mary Elizabeth Morrow (1812-94) gave the site and adjoining land to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who built a sanctuary here named in her honor. The church disbanded in the early 1920s and the chapel later housed classes of the Ola School District. In the 1930s a cemetery association was formed under the leadership of Mrs. Henry LaRoe and Mr. and Mrs. Basil Barton.

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