LAST Burial in Skinner Cemetery - Pilot Point, TX
N 33° 23.252 W 096° 56.974
14S E 690717 N 3696128
A 1998 Texas Historical Marker at Skinner Cemetery, Pilot Point, TX, indicates that the cemetery's last burial was that of Joe Mylo Phipps in 1928.
Waymark Code: WM15Q8B
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/08/2022
Views: 4
Findagrave indicates that this infant's parents were unknown, and they may have just been passing through town. His short headstone has a lamb at the top, followed by this inscription:
Joe Mylo
Phipps
Apr. 16, 1928
Apr. 27, 1928
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The historical marker provides some background:
In the early days of Pilot Point, Lucinda (Glasscock) and Richard Skinner set aside a 2.44-acre piece of land to be used as a cemetery. The first recorded burial was that of 5-year-old Josiah Taylor in March of 1858; his father, Josiah Sr., died the following July.
Predominantly of Anglo-Saxon Protestant descent, most of those buried here came from Kentucky, Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Many were farmers or ranchers. Significant graves include that of J.D. Merchant, Sr., a local businessman who built the first brick building in the area. Also here are several victims of yellow fever, including Prissie and Sarah Wilson, sisters who died within 2 months of one another during the epidemic of 1872 and 1873. Two people named James Graham, born on the same date two years apart, died on the same September day in 1867.
Lucinda Skinner, the last charter member of the Pilot Point First Baptist Church, died in 1890. By 1900, there were probably 200 graves in the cemetery. The land was sold by John Skinner to the Skinner Cemetery Association in 1905; the last recorded burial was that of Joe Mylo Phipps, an infant who died in 1928. The Skinner Cemetery remains a vital link to the early settlers of the Pilot Point community.
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parking coordinates: N 33° 23.219 W 096° 56.978
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