Historical Marker

Dunn Cemetery

Historical marker location:
off CR 302, Wheelock vicinity, Texas
( from Wheelock, SH 391 southwest to FM 304 to FM 302. Northwest to CR 301/Pryor Lane. Private property.)
Marker installed: 1972

Started in pioneer era on land of James and Isabella Caufield Dunn, who with 8 other families came from Ireland to America in 1821, living first in Charleston, S. C., then in Boligee, Ala. In Dec. 1833 they began trek to colony of Sterling C. Robertson by ox-wagons and carryalls. With the Dunns were families of Henry Caufield, Letitia Ellis and her daughter Elizabeth Watson, Henry and William Fullerton, Hugh and William Henry, the widow McMillan, and the Youngs. Burial of infant of James and Isabella Dunn (1836) opened this cemetery, used ever since by heirs of the pioneers.