SHEPARD CEMETERY - PLANO
Park Blvd
Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, Joy
Gough
This cemetery is
directly across the street from the Willow Bend Baptist Church. There are high
hedges around the golf course making the cemetery invisible from Park Blvd. For
a long time Willow Bend Baptist Church was called Liberty Baptist Church. It is
the oldest continuously running Baptist church in Collin County. They changed
their name around 1990. I do not think the cemetery was ever connected to the
church.
The land the cemetery is on was once the Old Shepard Ranch. There are roads and
housing areas around that reflect that name. There are 2 cemeteries on the
Shepard place. The other one is the Felker Cemetery and is south of this one.
Neither cemetery is mentioned in COLLIN COUNTY CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. They are
both mentioned in PLANO, TEXAS: THE EARLY YEARS. Someone is taking care of the
cemetery.
The cemetery is fenced with a 4-foot wrought-iron fence and is about 20 feet
square. There is a gate in the fence in the middle of the east side. There is
one readable upright stone and two stones on the ground-a child's stone and an
adult stone. There are also three broken stones, one at ground level. Known to
be buried here is Major Heustis, who died on November 30, 1857. There is also
supposed to be a horse thief buried here. It is said that he was hanged on a
tree nearby.
John S. Estes John Speer Grover Wells
Born Jan 3, 1880 Died Born 1811
Died Feb 2, 1880 Nov 1857? Died Nov 5, 1880
Weep not he is at rest
CEMETERY INDEX
Recommended
citation:
Shepard
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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