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    1. [TXSANAUG] Re: HARVEY CEMETERY - San Augustine County, TX
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ElB.2ACE/558.1.1 Message Board Post: The following information is from a book in the San Augustine Library: PRESENT LOCATION AND DATA: When the Magee Bend Reservoir (later named Sam Rayburn Lake), was build in the 1960's, sixty-two graves were located southeast of the home site of Stephen Prather Harvey, Sr. and 2 unknown graves were reinterred one (1) mile south of Broaddus, Texas on State Hwy. #147, on top of a hill to the right of the highway. HARVEY CEMETERY, ORIGINAL LOCATION; was located on land owned by the Glen Harvey estate, three miles southeast of Broaddus, and contained 62 graves. Ten graves have formal markers, three of which have double stones. The remaining 52 graves are either marked with native stone or are unmarked. Investigation reveals that all unmarked graves can be identified. The cemetery is comprises of 17.16 square feet of land and is enclosed by a net and three barbed wire fence, and lies at elevation 171.0 m.s.9.

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