Cemetery

New Prospect

Panola County · THC Atlas #7365003405

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About this site

New Prospect is a cemetery in Panola County, Texas. It is one of 80 cemeteries documented in Panola County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 132 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 32.2374, -94.4014. The nearest cataloged historic site is New Prospect Cemetery (historical marker), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Pierce, Bethel, and Langley.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7365003405. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

New Prospect Cemetery began in 1870 in a Panola County community once known as Scruggs, near Beckville. Homesteaders Robert Alexander Craig and his wife Martha Jane Freeland donated land for a church and graveyard, and the oldest documented burial is that of Elizabeth Scruggs, who died in 1870. Among its many marked and unmarked graves are pioneer settlers and veterans of wars from the Civil War through Korea. The Texas Historical Commission erected a marker here in 1996.

Sources: hmdb.org cemeteries-of-tx.com

📍 32.2374, -94.4014 · Panola County

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