LEACH/THOMAS CEMETERY - PLANO
Chaparral Road at Jupiter Road
Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, by Joy
Gough
The cemetery covers about ½ acre of land. There is no fence. The ground is
covered with periwinkle vine. There is evidence that horses have been in the
cemetery at least once. There were horses in the field at the time I visited.
When I visited the cemetery, I parked on Chaparral Road, and followed the little
creek south through the field about 200 yards. When the creek turned west, I
angled southeast to the clump of trees in the middle of the pasture.
The Leach family stones in the cemetery have been set in concrete bases with a
pipe fence around them. There are 2 plots with 3 graves for Leaches. Their
stones are on the western side of the cemetery. The Thomas family stones are
close to the middle of the cemetery. They are all down or propped up against
trees. There are maybe 3 Thomas stones and footstones. At one time the cemetery
contained about 100 graves. It was used by the residents of Allen until the
1920's.
Chaparral Road is the boundary between Plano and Allen in this area. There is a
housing project going up on the north side of Chaparral Road. The south side of
the road is a farm and open fields. In 1994 there were plans to develop the area
around the cemetery. The realtor tried to give the cemetery to various groups in
order to preserve it. I have not heard any more about it.
This is the Jeremiah Muncey survey. His family was the one killed in the Muncey
Massacre. (See Muncey Cemetery). The massacre site was on the south side of
Rowlett Creek and about ¼ mile west. The family of William Perrin obtained the
land sometime after the Munceys. The cemetery was probably used as the Perrin
Family Cemetery. One of the Perrin daughters married a Thomas. When William
Perrin divided his land among his children, she got the portion with the
cemetery on it. Another Perrin daughter, Mary Elizabeth, married John Smith
Huffman, Jr, who was the first doctor in Plano. They are buried at Rowlett
Cemetery in Collin County, and are the great grandparents of Lyndon Baines
Johnson. William Perrin and his wife, Dycie, are the great-great-grandparents of
LBJ, and are buried here in the Thomas Cemetery. Their markers have disappeared.
William Perrin - Dycie Kerbey
Dr. John Smith Huffman Jr - Mary Elizabeth Perrin
Joseph Wilson Baines - Ruth Ament Huffman
Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. - Rebekah Baines
Lyndon Baines Johnson
CEMETERY INDEX
Recommended
citation:
Leach/Thomas Cemetery - Plano,
"CEMETERIES OF COLLIN COUNTY." Collin
County, Texas History and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano
Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13, 2004 ].
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