A cemetery workday, information exchange and get-together will be held June 1 at Stone Family Cemetery near Proctor.
Organizers encourage anyone interested to attend especially if interested in “genealogy, family research, burial information, bible records.”
“We will begin early in the day and there will be signs leading visitors to the cemetery location which is located slightly south and west of the town of Proctor,” said organizers in a release.
The Stone Family Cemetery was started in 1858 by William Stone, who set aside an acre and a half of his land for this purpose. William’s grandson, Benjamin James, was born and died in 1858 and his is the first marked grave.
William’s family, friends and other settlers who were early to this area needed a burial place and the cemetery has family lines in marked graves which includes surnames of Ratliff, Johnson, Dunn, Stark, Rhodes and Brown. There are a number of graves for which the group needs identities and proofs (such as photographs, Bible records or newspaper reports stating death date and burial site) are necessary.
More information about the group can be found on the Stone Family Cemetery page on Facebook.
The group has goals for improvements including an official Texas State Historical Marker because of the age of the cemetery and the fact that it has the graves of four Civil War soldiers.