WIXON CEMETERY
OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL MARKER

THE RURAL FARMING COMMUNITY OF WIXON WAS SETTLED IN THE LATE 1860S
BY FORMER RESIDENTS OF SEVERAL WAR-TORN SOUTHERN STATES. THE WIXON
SCHOOL AND WIXON CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WERE ESTABLISHED
IN THE 1870S ON LAND ADJACENT THIS CEMETERY. THE EARLIEST RECORDED BURIAL
 HERE WAS THAT OF NANCY SUMMERS IN 1871. BOTH THE CHURCH AND SCHOOL
CLOSED IN THE 1930S AND IN 1968 THE SCHOOL PROPERTY WAS DEEDED TO THE
CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. BURIED HERE ARE MANY OF THE AREA'S EARLY SETTLERS
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS AND AT LEAST 17 CONFEDEREATE CIVIL WAR VETERANS. 1996
SESQUICENTENNIAL OF TEXAS STATEHOOD 1845-1995