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Black plaque № 25732

Murchison, TX, United States

Leagueville Cemetery. The Leagueville community developed out of the Aaron York survey. Tradition holds this cemetery began west of an early schoolhouse located on land donated by B.T. and Annie Roberts. The community's pioneer schoolhouse also provided space for religious services, and in 1880 the

congregation that would eventually become Leagueville Baptist Church organized there. The oldest marked grave in the burial ground is that of Alabama native Jacob Colvin, who died in 1863. There are m

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