On several occasions when I have come into contact with persons familiar with the Samuel Doak McMahon family, Sabine County pioneers, there is always the question: "Where is Phoebe buried?" Phoebe was Samuel's wife, Phoebe Young McMahon. Everyone knows where he is buried -- in the McMahan Chapel Cemetery across the road from the famous little church in Sabine County. But the question persists -- where is Phoebe buried. In the "History of McMahan's Chapel," by Virgie Worsham Scurlock, there is a list of burials in the cemetery. The author mentions that Samuel is buried in the McMahon family plot but there is never any mention as to whether others are buried in the plot. Recently, I came upon some history of the Enoch P. Chisholm family -- Chisholm being the husband of Samuel and Phoebe's oldest daughter, Amanda. He, too, was an early Sabine County resident, arriving in about 1835. Amanda died in 1853 and the narrative I read states that she was buried in the family plot in McMahan cemetery. It makes sense that she would have been buried there but there is no published record, apparently, of that fact. Chisholm, like his father-in-law, was a Methodist minister and he and Amanda were charter members of the McMahan Chapel. The story gets a bit interesting when one considers that Samuel D. McMahon died in 1854, one year after Amanda. So she would have been the first burial in the family plot. Phoebe did not die until four years later, in 1858. So, the answer to the question of where is Phoebe buried would likely be that she rests in the family plot, alongside her husband and Amanda, and perhaps others in family. I am hoping that somewhere, someway, there is someone with knowledge of the cemetery that will supplement the meagre data we have now. Horatio Paul McAfee