Coming at you with another wee hidden cemetery from the DFW area. This is the McMillen Cemetery in Murphy. The cemetery was on the property of former-Arkansasians Comfort Allen (C.A.) McMillen and his wife Lydia Noble Maxwell McMillen. James and Henry Maxwell (Lydia’s brothers) also made the trek. The group arrived in Murphy on January 1, 1846 and quickly got down to business. They started the Corinth Presbyterian Church during that same year. Lydia and C.A. then had a son in March of 1847. The Presbyterian Church (one of the oldest in Collin County) is in Parker, TX and still maintains the grounds of the cemetery.
These burials might have a link to my last cemetery – the Murphy Family Cemetery. One of the headstones there belonged to a Minday McMillen. It was the only wood headstone in the plot. Minday McMillen was born in 1820, Lydia in 1821 and C.A. in 1818 making them all of the same generation. The Murphy family was another original Anglo family to the area having arrived prior to 1850; certainly the two families would have known each other and probably intermarried?
Images:
Entrance to the cemetery.
The modern double headstone of C.A. McMillen and his wife Lydia.
Minday McMillen’s wood headstone from the Murphy Family Cemetery.
W.J. Poindexter who is featured here simply because I love his/her headstone details. And the fact that he/she lived to be nearly 93.
