Blanton
Creek Cemetery
Blanton Creek Cemetery, 2 Sep 1896,
"This cemetery is located in the northwest quadrant of Red
River County, Texas. GPS COORDINATES: Datum WGS84: 33 Deg 43.173N,
95 Deg 09.608W. This cemetery is located about 14 miles northwest
of Clarksville, about 4 miles north of Bagwell on the Manchester
road on the east side. J. M. Pike was paid $1 for 4,830 square
yards of the P. D. Midkiff survey for a burial ground on 4 August
1939. The oldest marked burial is that of Gilbert Travis Hastings,
an infant, who was born and died 2 September 1896. This cemetery
was surveyed by Lawrence and Sue Dale on 17 Feb 1997. There has
been an old marker for Robert L. Mathis moved to this cemetery
from the Mathis-Kendall Cemetery near Woodland TX where the burial
originally occurred. We were on the site on 29 Jan 2003 to review
the work in progress and to take the GPS Coordinates. There has
been a major revamp of this cemetery in 2003 with the establishment
of 2 new areas. The old original cemetery is now called the East
section and 2 new areas are separately fenced, called the Southwest
which has new burials and Northwest section which is for future
expansion. We visited the site again on 11 Jan 2004. We also
did a re-walk of the cemetery adding new burials and noting marker
changes."
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