Cemetery

Miles

Cherokee County · THC Atlas #7073007205

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About this site

Miles is a cemetery in Cherokee County, Texas. It is one of 169 cemeteries documented in Cherokee County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 287 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 31.9113, -95.3155. The nearest cataloged historic site is Arnwine Plot (cemetery), about 1.8 miles away. Others within a short drive include Antioch, Earle's Chapel Cemetery, and Earle's Chapel Methodist Church.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7073007205. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Miles Cemetery sits about four miles southwest of Jacksonville off FM 747, reached by an unpaved lane on County Road 3111. The roughly hundred-yard-square plot, fenced within a cattle pasture, holds graves dating to the 1800s from families including the Arnold, Ferguson, Hicks, and Miles families, though many graves are unmarked or bear broken stones. It was surveyed in 1996.

Sources: tx-wooddell.net sites.rootsweb.com

📍 31.9113, -95.3155 · Cherokee County

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Earle's Chapel Cemetery

Jacksonville · 1990

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