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Directions: 5.4 mi. E of Daingerfield on Fm 130; 1 mi. N on CR 4119 to CR 4104 |
Marker #: 5343012234 |
Year Dedicated: 2000 |
Size, type: 18" x 28" |
Last reported condition: No report |
County Line Baptist Church and
Cemetery - County Line Baptist Church records date back to
1859, but the church is believed to have been in existence some
years earlier. The cemetery probably was already in use prior to
1863, when the earliest marked headstone was placed on this site for
three-year-old John C. Leftwich. From the 1890s to 1901, County Line
Community School met in the log church. A new church building was
erected in 1901. Age and storm damage necessitated a move to another
facility in 1943. The congregation began to allow grass to grow on
the formerly scraped-earth cemetery grounds about that time. A
number of veterans of the U. S. Armed Forces and various military
conflicts are interred here. A cemetery association was formed in
1976. Both church and cemetery are chronicles of Morris County
history. (2000) |
Coordinates: No decimal coordinates available.
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