Concord
Cemetery
 
"Concord","Cemetery","12
Aug 1847","Concord","This cemetery is located
in the northeast quadrant of Red River County, Texas. GPS COORDINATES:
Datum WGS84: 33 Deg 39.549N, 94 Deg 56.766W. From Clarksville
take FM 1159 north for 3 miles to the intersection with FM 1700.
Turn right or east onto FM 1700 and go 5.1 miles. The cemetery
is on the right and is marked. On 8 Apr 1854 there was an instrument
made conveying 1 acre of land located in the Giddens survey 7
miles northeast of Clarksville by Richard F. Giddens to the Concord
Church. This was duly filed on 8 Apr 1854 and recorded in Book
CH Vol J Page 355. Concord Baptist Church paid $25 to J. R. and
Lula B. Giddens, husband and wife, for one acre of the Richard
F. Giddens headright survey on 5 Nov 1910. The oldest marked
burial is that of J. R. Giddens who died 12 Aug 1847. This cemetery
was surveyed by Lawrence and Sue Dale on 22 Jan 1999. We were
on the site on 8 May 2003 and took the GPS Coordinates. We also
did a re-walk of the cemetery on 15 Jan 2004 checking for new
burials and noting marker changes."
"Concord B","Cemetery","26 Dec 1917","Concord
B","From death records of Red River County, Texas ---
burial in Concord cemetery"
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