Parker, Cynthia E. (wife-P.L.) May 10 1820 - June 2 1890 Parker, Little Lacy (sone-S & D) Mar 6 1879 - July 27 1883 Hope this helps. Mary Love Berryman ----- Original Message ----- From: Tonya Harris <mtharris@ev1.net> To: <TXCOLL-N-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [TXCOLL-N] Cemetery Clean-Up > Does anyone have a transcription of the Murchison part? I'm interested in > the Parker surname. > > Tonya Aultman-Harris > mtharris@ev1.net > > Pay for your research (and mine) with Alladvantage.com #CNO-573 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mary Love Berryman <marylove@tyler.net> > To: <TXCOLL-N-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 8:11 AM > Subject: [TXCOLL-N] Cemetery Clean-Up > > > TWIN CEMETERIES (Honaker & Murchison) > > The Honaker & Murchison are old twin cemeteries in Collin County - located > about 2 1/2 miles northeast of Farmersville. According to the Collin > County (Texas) Cemetery Inscriptions, Volume II, by Mr. Alice Pitts, Mrs. > Wanda O'Roark, and Mrs. Doris Posey, "The first burial in the Murchison > Cemetery was in 1860." There have been no burials there since the mid > 1930's and the cemeteries are overgrown with underbrush, trees & trash. Up > until this time all cleanup has been done under the supervision of Lt. > Dent, > Deputy Sheriff of Collin County, about once a year using prisoners. > > Some of the Murchison descendants want to clean the cemetery up and form a > Cemetery Association for the upkeep of the cemetery. Saturday, March 18, 8 > a.m., has been designated as "Clean Up Day" - weather permitting. If you > would like to help with this project, please notify Hoyt Berryman, Jr., > 3106 > Rollingwood Dr, Tyler, TX - phone 903 566-0633 - marylove@tyler.net. > > Surnames found in these cemeteries are: > > HONAKER - Bale, Bergin, Brannon, Bryant, Butler, Cameron, Carroll, Cox, > Clinton, Coker, Crump, Currin, Dickenson, Dorton, Douglas, Gibson, Graham, > Gresham, Greever, Hale, Harless, Helton, Howard, James, Johnson, Langham, > Lanier, Lee, Martin, Milton, Morton, McDonald, McPrice, Owens, Purcell, > Roberts, Russell, Sims, Spain, Sparkes, Stewart, Strickland, Suggs, Thomas, > Tucker, Vicars, Watson, Webb, Wells, Wood, Young. > > MURCHISON - Allison, Anderson, Andrews, Basham, Bell, Belt, Bowden, Box, > Brooks, Brown, Cole, Collier, Cox, Franklin, Gilmore, Groves, Guttery, > Haughton, Head, Howell, Jackson, King, Law, London, Mason, Moore, > Murchison, > McCandless, Parker, Phillips, Robinson, Roberts, Sellars, Sheppard, Smith, > Sowell, Sumrow, Swindell, Temple, Terrell, Thompson, Vance, Willis, > Whitman, > Young, Wiley, Robinson. > > > > > >