Bivins
Cemetery
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Bivins Cemetery, 28 Oct 1892,"This
cemetery is located in the southeast quadrant of Red River County,
Texas. GPS COORDINATES: Datum WGS84: 33 Deg 36.153N, 95 Deg 01.659W.
This cemetery is referred to in the funeral records from Jolly
Funeral Home for Mattie Kennedy Criner -- 'burial in the John
W. Bivins Cemetery'. From downtown Clarksville take Hwy 82 east
for 8/10 mile to the intersection with S. Fairground. Turn right
or south onto S. Fairground and after 3/10 mile S. Fairground
becomes CR 4105. Continue on CR 4105 for 7/10 mile and there
is a barbed wire gap into a pasture on the left. Enter the pasture
and continue northeasterly for 2/10 miles until you run out of
pasture lane. Get out and continue to walk northeasterly up the
fenceline for another 150 yards and the cemetery is ahead in
a chain-link enclosure and badly grown over. The oldest marked
burial with a complete date is that of John A. W. Sowell who
died on 28 Oct 1892. On a pleasant afternoon, 4 May 2001, with
the weather threatening rain, we finally made the trip to the
cemetery. On a cool January afternoon with cloud cover we again
visited the site on 30 Jan 2003 and recorded the GPS Coordinates."
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