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Parker County
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Bethesda Cemetery
Bethesda Community, Texas
Historical marker text:
Bethesda Cemetery
Settlers in the 1860s called this area Dry Creek but renamed it Bethesda Community in 1876 after they built a schoolhouse used for Methodist worship. John G Leach (1846-1930) & John Marshall Coalson (1826-1897) gave land near the school for a cemetery in 1877 when Leach's daughter Minnie (1872-1961) seemed near death with diptheria. She recovered & the earliest marked grave is that of Charlie A Walker (1879-1890). Childhood mortality accounts for many graves in the older part of the cemetery. Descendants of pioneer families donated land in 1973 to enlarge the site to five acres. (1976)



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