Detroit
Cemetery
Detroit Cemetery, 3 Nov 1873,"This cemetery is located in
the southwest quadrant of Red River County, Texas. GPS COORDINATES:
Datum WGS84: 33 Deg 38.993N, 95 Deg 15.948W. This cemetery is
located about a mile south of Detroit and a city block to the
east of FM 410. There are six specific plots to this cemetery
and they are as follows. The plot across the road from the main
cemetery to the west is known as the Meers addition and burials
therein are identified as such. From the south end of the cemetery,
the first two plots associated with the Norris family, are called
simply Norris 1 and Norris 2 (where the mausoleum is located).
Next to the north, the center of the cemetery, is Sec 3, this
being followed in order by Sec 4 with Sec 5 being the northernmost
of the plots. The oldest marked burial is that of Carolina W.
Dorsett who died on 3 Nov 1873. there is a deed to Detroit Cemetery
from Z. T. Cooper et ux for 3 acres of the Ive Guest survey dated
on 23 Mar 1892 and filed for record on 4 Jun 1897 in Book CH
33 page 112. There is also a deed on 19 Mar 1909 from R. G. Norris
to Detroit Cemetery for tract 1 mile south of Detroit and filed
for record on 20 Mar 1909 in Book CH 62 page 235. This cemetery
was surveyed by Lawrence and Sue Dale in a two month period in
September and October 1998 and was walked two times in its entirety.
We have visited repeatedly in the course of time and again on
20 Jan 2003 to take the GPS Coordinates. We also did a re-walk
of the cemetery on 11 and 12 May 2004 adding new burials and
noting marker changes."
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