PLANO MUTUAL CEMETERY - PLANO
18th Street at Jupiter 33.025N 96.683W
18th Street at Jupiter 33.025N 96.683W
This cemetery is quite large with about 2000 graves. There is a fence on 3 sides. The part facing 18th street has steel bars and brick pillars. There are houses on 2 sides of the cemetery. The Dickey Funeral Home is on the south side of the street. There are stones dating back into the 1880's at least. William Foreman I was buried in the Plano Mutual Cemetery in 1856. Many of the very early stones seem to have disappeared. The cemetery is well taken care of and is still in use.
This was near the original location of the town of Plano. The William Foreman family came to the area around 1850. They started a gristmill, a distillery, a sawmill, and a cooperage on a small stream nearby. The first post office for the area was out of their home. The town later moved south to be near the railroad.
The Foreman family is the one who gave the land for the cemetery. There are several deeds pertaining to this cemetery. The deed listed in Vol 145, p 433, made in 1907, shows that the cemetery was divided into sections for the Masons, International Order of Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World, Knights of Pythias, and the Mutual Cemetery Association of Plano. Those sections are no longer evident. The old part of the cemetery was on the northeast. There is a later deed for the Ladies Mutual Cemetery Association.
The cemetery has a historical marker.
Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, Joy Gough
This was near the original location of the town of Plano. The William Foreman family came to the area around 1850. They started a gristmill, a distillery, a sawmill, and a cooperage on a small stream nearby. The first post office for the area was out of their home. The town later moved south to be near the railroad.
The Foreman family is the one who gave the land for the cemetery. There are several deeds pertaining to this cemetery. The deed listed in Vol 145, p 433, made in 1907, shows that the cemetery was divided into sections for the Masons, International Order of Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World, Knights of Pythias, and the Mutual Cemetery Association of Plano. Those sections are no longer evident. The old part of the cemetery was on the northeast. There is a later deed for the Ladies Mutual Cemetery Association.
The cemetery has a historical marker.
Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, Joy Gough
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PLANO MUTUAL CEMETERY
AMONG THE EARLIEST GRAVEYARDS IN COLLIN COUNTY, THIS CEMETERY TRACES ITS BEGINNINGS TO 1852 WHEN DR. LILLIE WAS BURIED ON LAND BELONGING TO HIS UNCLE WILLIAM FORMAN. A KENTUCKY NATIVE, FORMAN CAME TO TEXAS ABOUT 1850 AND BOUGHT 640 ACRES IN 1851 FROM SANFORD BECK. LILLIE'S DEATH PROMPTED A MEETING OF PIONEER SETTLERS TO DECIDE THE LOCATION OF A GRAVEYARD. THE OWNERS OF FOUR SECTIONS OF LAND THAT CONVERGED TOGETHER PROM- ISED EQUAL PORTIONS FOR THE CEMETERY. HOWEVER, MOST OF THE EARLIEST GRAVES ARE LOCATED ON FORMAN LAND. BY THE 1870s THE FORMAN FAMILY CEMETERY WAS COMBINED WITH CEMETERY TRACTS PURCHASED BY THE LOCAL MASONIC AND ODD FELLOWS LODGES. A GROUP OF LOCAL WOMAN ORGA- NIZED THE LADIES MUTUAL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION IN THE 1890s TO MAINTAIN THE SITE. THEY BEAUTIFIED THE GROUNDS, PROVIDED A PAVILION AND DOUBLED THE SIZE OF THE CEME- TERY DURING THEIR NEARLY 40 YEARS TENURE. BY 1907 ADJOINING TRACTS OF LAND WERE BOUGHT BY THE MUTUAL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, WOODMEN OF THE WORLD AND KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS ORGANIZATIONS. THE PLANO MUTUAL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION WAS FORMED IN 1928 AND CONTINUES SERVICE TO THE SITE. BURIED HERE ARE MANY EARLY PIO- NEERS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, WAR VETERANS, AND ELECTED OFFICIALS. Texas Historical marker, 1996 |
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