It is possible to get the SCORE program to clean cemeteries in Collin Co. SCORE is minimum security county prisoners who do the work in the morning and go to classes in the afternoons. They will do clean up of the yardwork variety, but they do not repair stones. Send requests through the county Sheriff's Dept. Someone representing the person making the request must be at the cemetery at the time the prisoners are cleaning it. Honaker/Murchison Cemeteries have been cleaned at least three times by them. Joy Gough Mitzi Hammond Perkins wrote: > > I didn't know such a program existed for cemetery cleanup. Is it possible to > have such work done at other cemeteries in Collin Co.? I'd almost be > willing to get arrested to see some of the work done. > Mitzi Perkins > ----- 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. > > > > > > > >