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Marker No: 15725

Texas Historical Cemetery Marker

Geographic: 33.022289, -96.606079

Location: North Maxwell Creek Road. The cemetery is located at the end of road on the back side of an industrial area, Murphy

Marker Text: ​In 1886, while a resident of Coryell County, James Maxwell, Jr., sold three acres of land for five dollars to Trustees C.A. McMillan, H. Willaford and W. Brinson and formally established Maxwell Cemetery. Members of the families of the three trustees were buried at the cemetery, but no Maxwell family members are interred at the site. The cemetery’s earliest marked burial is that of Samuel McCreary, who died in 1853. Over one-third of the graves are those of small children, showing the difficulty of childhood at the time. Burials at the cemetery include veterans of the Black Hawk War, Civil War, and World War I. The Maxwell Cemetery served the Murphy area for over 100 years, with the last burial in 1966. (2001)