Historical Marker
Mount Zion Cemetery
Historical marker location:
On CR 127 off FM 717 via FM 207, Caddo, Texas
( From Caddo take FM 717 8 miles to LaCasa; take FM 207 west 1 miles; turn south on CR 127 and continue 0.7 miles to cemetery.)
Marker installed: 1994
In 1879 this land was owned by Ezekel J. and Louisa J. McCleskey. According to McCleskey Family tradition M.M. McCluskey, a relative of Ezekel and Louisa from Georgia, died while visiting in 1879 and was the first person buried here. Eventually her grave site, near a church/school building, became a community cemetery named Veale for a local pioneer family. It was legally set aside as the Mount Zion Cemetery by the McCleskeys in 1907. The cemetery, enlarged over the years and maintained by an association formed in 1979, continues to serve the Frankell and LaCasa communities.