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Mount Calm Cemetery
Limestone County, Texas
Lat: 31° 44' 00"N, Lon: 96° 52' 27"W
Contributed by Bruce Jordan, Dec 29, 2002 [bjordan@glade.net].
Total records = 1,157.
From Mount Calm on Highway 31, go south on FM 339. Turn west/right
on 1st Street. Go about .5 mile and turn left/south on HCR 3278 (Nickles Ave). Go about a mile to LCR 102 turning right/west.
The cemetery is about .2 mile on the left and is easily seen from the
road.
Mount Calm Cemetery is the only surviving vestige of the
original community which moved about a mile north into Hill County when
the railroad was built in 1881. James Samuel Kimmel donated land for the original portion of the cemetery in 1870.
The first burial was Mrs. Jane
Rice on Apr 26, 1870. The second burial was her son, Jonathan, who died
in 1877. Additional donations of land were given by George Shaffer, Will
Good, and H. E. Blake. A state charter has been established and a
historical marker erected.
J. J. Elliott, a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, is buried in the
Mount
Calm Cemetery as are 19 veterans of the Civil War and 11 veterans of World
War I.
These records were compiled by Bruce and Linda Jordan by reading
all of the existing tombstones. This transcription represents all the people in this cemetery with a marker, as of
December 2002.
- Bruce Jordan
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