SALEM CEMETERY
The First Interment here was in
1870, but that grave was later moved. Oldest graves now are those of
twin infants E. and P. J. Sheet, who died Feb. 9, 1871, and Synthia
Green, who died Aug 9, 1871. R. M. and W. J. Graham and F. M. Reed gave the
land to the Methodist Episcopal Church south in 1876 as a site for a
church, school, and cemetery. One of the 826 graves here is that of
Nathaniel Addison (1811 - 1900), A veteran of the Texas Revolution. The
Salem cemetery association, organized in 1904, is still active, but the
church was closed in 1913, and the school consolidated with Irene in
1917. (1975)
Located at the entrance of
the Salem Cemetery just across the county line in Hill County, west of Emmett, Navarro Co., TX
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