Farrsville Cemetery

Historical marker location:

From Weirgate, Texas, proceed west on Hwy 63, Go 6 miles and turn right on CR 1052. Go .5 mile and turn left on CR 1053. Farrsville Cemetery is located on the immediate left., Burkeville, Texas

( Wiergate; go 6 mi. W of Wiergate on Hwy 63, turn right (NE) on CR 1052, then left (NW) on CR 1053, cemetery if immediately left (W) of CR 1053)

Marker installed: 2009

Methodist minister Alfred Farr arrived in Newton County prior to 1860, and the community that grew around his homesite came to be known as Farrsville. The cemetery established at this site was first called Hines Cemetery. M.D. Hines, Sr., owned a homestead near the burial ground, and five early graves bear the name Hines. The earliest known burial is that of Jane Victor Smith, who died in 1859. The site was not officially designated as a cemetery until William Smith deeded a "two acre tract reserved for church, school house and grave yard" in 1878. The name of the burial ground was officially changed to Farrsville Cemetery in 1992 upon the creation of the Farrsville Cemetery Association.

Historic Texas Cemetery - 2001.

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