Milam County TX - Cemetery - Nance Cemetery ******************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Milam County Genealogical Society with permission from Mrs. John T. Martin (nee: Evelyn Curtsinger) Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ******************************************************************************* CEMETERY RECORDS - INTRODUCTION All of the cemeteries copied lie in the northeastern portion of Milam County (except Fort Griffin). Every effort has been made to copy all tombstone inscriptions; however, many graves are marked only with metal markers (no longer readable), footstones, wooden stobs, rocks, or clumps of iris. All graves have been noted -- both those with or without tombstones. Those without inscriptions are included to assist those searching for gravestones -- which do not exist. They are noted as follows, example: McNEILL, James Hugh, Aug. 18, 1876 - Mar. 3, 1958 (2*) JOHNSON, W. T., 1897-1926 The figure within the parenthesis (2*) indicates that two graves without tombstone inscriptions lie between or near the graves of McNeill and Johnson. Perhaps they belong to members of these families. It was necessary to edit most of the inscriptions, i.e., abbreviate dates, omit verses, etc., but no information was omitted regarding the names on the stones, and relationships were included when it was at all possible. Sometimes a stone read "Father" on the stone itself, sometimes on the footstone. Every effort has been made to preserve such notations. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nance Cemetery, Milam County, Texas Located on the north side of the Jones Prairie - Calvert Road #979 near String Prairie Branch. It is two miles east of Little River Baptist Church. The inscriptions are all on one stone. (Copied November 1, 1963.) NANCE, James (Father, Apr. 18, 1831 - Jan. 13, 1885 and Celia R. (Mother), Jan. 23, 1842 - Mar. 25, 1868 and James C., Son of J. & C. R. NANCE (Brother), June 15, 1862 - Dec. 15, 1881 and Mary E., Dau. of J. & C. R. NANCE (Sister), Sep. 16, 1865 - July 12, 1866 - - - - - - - - - - SOURCE: "Milam County, Texas Records - Vol. 1" - Compiled by Mrs. John T. Martin (nee: Evelyn Curtsinger) and Mrs. Louis C. Hill (nee: Kathryn Curtsinger - Deceased), Printed in Waco, Texas, 1965. In 2003, Mrs. Martin granted permission to place information from this book on the internet, in writing, to the Milam County Genealogical Society.