CEMETERY POINT CEMETERY, SMITH COUNTY, TEXAS

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      Lawrence E. Oliver - September 18, 2004
and:  Alan & Teresa Goss

File Updated October 26, 2004

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Cemetery read Sept. 18, 2004

The map coordinates are:
         Latitude:   32:14:12.4
        Longitude:  095:06:56.3

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Cemetery Point Cemetery, Smith County, Texas -- SE-64

From Tyler, take Hwy 64E to the bridge over Lake Tyler East. 
Proceed on Hwy64E to the intersection of CR230 and turn 
right (south). Proceed on CR230 for a distance of 2.66 miles. 
The cemetery is 0.655 mile on a bearing of 284 degrees true 
from CR230.


This cemetery apparently consists of a single marked, unnamed grave, 
facing east, and is on a tract of land as follows: land in the 
Wilson L. Parmer Survey, Abstract No. 767, 5-3/4 acres of land 
conveyed to E.H. Toncray by Henry Floore et ux by deed dated 
Nov. 25, 1896, recorded in Vol. 58, page 99, Deed Records of 
Smith County, Texas.


**NOTE** Oct 26, 2004:

The following information was provided by Charles Musselwhite of 
Whitehouse, Smith County, Texas, on October 26, 2004. This information 
is from his family verbal history. There is no other verifying 
information on this data.

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There are actually 4 graves in the cemetery - only one was marked - 
it is believed that this is an African-American cemetery. If so, it 
might be the grave of a Thomas McKay, enumerated as a laborer with 
the family of Steven Christopher Columbus Musselwhite on the US Census, 
1900: Smith Co. Tex, Pct 2, vol. 97, e.d. 99, sh. 22, line 1, Soundex.

Thomas McKay; Serv; B; M; 50; Sept. 1849; TX.

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