Mount Joy Cemetery

Historical marker location:
C.R. 4730, Cooper, Texas
( 9.5 miles N.E. of Cooper. Continue 2.3 miles from where F.M. 198 intersects F.M. 1742. Then when F.M. 1742 turns into C.R. 4730 the cemetery is located to the north approximately 50 yards from the road.)
Marker installed: 2012
Marker size: 18" x 28" with post

SETTLERS FIRST CAME TO MOUNT JOY IN 1836 AND THE TOWN DEVELOPED INTO A THRIVING FARMING SETTLEMENT. PRESBYTERIAN AND BAPTIST COMMUNITY MEMBERS ESTABLISHED MOUNT JOY BAPTIST CHURCH IN 1873. A METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH ORGANIZED THE FOLLOWING YEAR. AT ITS PEAK IN THE 1880s, THE COMMUNITY HAD THREE STEAM-POWERED COTTON GINS, A GRISTMILL, SHINGLE FACTORY AND STORES, AND STAGECOACHES LINKED IT TO NEARBY SETTLEMENTS. A POST OFFICE CLOSED IN 1907. THE FIRST RECORDED BURIAL IN MOUNT JOY CEMETERY (ALSO REFERRED TO AS STATEN CEMETERY) WAS OF MARY GARRETT IN 1873. IN 1891 W.B. CHAMBERS OFFICIALLY DEEDED THE LAND FOR USE AS A CEMETERY.

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