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The McCombs Cemetery
Historical Marker reads:
"The history of this small community
cemetery dates to the 1850's, before Denton was selected as County
Seat. The site contains graves of early pioneers of the
Lewisville-Flower Mound area. Settlers included
Nehemiah Wade Boyd(1823-1856), his wife Susan McCombs
Boyd(1824-1917), their six children and members of Nowlin, Sigler,
and Rivers Families who arrived in 1855 from Tennessee. Nehemiah
Boyd died suddenly of pneumonia after being chilled by a blue
norther while building a log cabin for his family, and was buried on
land donated by his brother in law, John Mathis McCombs. Susan Boyd
later gave birth to their seventh child and First Texan, George
Taylor Boyd(1856-1933). Although Nehemiah Boyd's burial was long
believed to be the first, archeological evidence suggests as many as
100 individuals may have been buried here and that the site was a
community cemetery in use between the 1850's and 1890's. Typically
graves were marked with native sandstone or brick. Boyd descendants
formed the McCombs Cemetery Association in 1990 to protect the
burial site from encroaching development.
Today, the McCombs Cemetery Association
is taking care of this historic cemetery treasure.
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