Canton, TX, United States
Starr Cemetery and School. James F. Starr, acting as attorney for Sarah F. Clapp, executed a deed donating two acres of land at this site for a community school on September 14, 1886. Burials occurred here as early as 1889, and in 1911 a cemetery was officially established when A. C. White and his w
ife sold two adjoining acres. The earliest marked grave is that of B. A. and Ora Monroe's infant son, who died February 18, 1889. Veterans interred here include Civil War soldier Joseph Staley. The ce
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