Proctor Cemetery
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Geographic: 32.001488,-98.412949
Location: From Proctor, go south on FM 1476 about 1/2 mile, then go left onto County Road about 2 miles.
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Marker Text: The land on which this cemetery is located was once part of a farm owned by the pioneer Larkin Gyger family. The first person interred here was W.B. Long (1817-1875), a Methodist minister and neighbor of the Gyger family. As the small town of Proctor began to grow with the arrival of the railroad in the 1890s, this gradually became a community graveyard, fifty-seven of the graves are from the nineteenth century. Also buried here are nine veterans of the Civil War. A cemetery association, organized in 1940, maintains the historic burial ground. (1988)
Marker No: 4128
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
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