| Marker Number |
10855 |
| Atlas Number |
5379010855 |
| Marker Title |
Dougherty Community Cemetery |
| Index Entry |
Dougherty Community Cemetery |
| Address |
|
| City |
Emory |
| County |
Rains |
| UTM Zone |
15 |
| UTM Easting |
241098 |
| UTM Northing |
3647914 |
| Subject Codes |
cemetery |
| Marker Year |
1980 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
4 mi. north of Emory on FM 275, then east on CR 4320 to cemetery |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
James W. Dougherty and his wife Isabella brought their family to Texas from Kentucky in the late 1840s. Joining the colony of Charles Fenton Mercer, they settled in this area. In 1851 they bought 640 acres here, where Dougherty was a farmer and a tanner. In 1877 their son Robert N. Dougherty donated one acre at this site for public use as a community burial ground. Two additional tracts of land, deeded to the cemetery association in 1935 and 1964, were acquired from A. V. and Della Terry. (1980) |
