Union Cemetery
Cooper, Delta County, Texas
Cemeteries of Texas Coordinator: Dolores I. Bishop
Information provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site
Location:
about 8 mi. southwest of Cooper
Marker:
(0.75 mi. S) This graveyard served the farm and ranch communities of Gough,
Yowell, and Antioch. The earliest recorded burial is that of W. H. Henderson in
1859. The cemetery contains more than 90 marked graves mostly arranged in family
plots. Buried here are many of the area's earliest settlers and their
descendants and at least three veterans of the Civil War: T. J. Hollon, Hiram G.
Wynn, and T. J. Craig. The last recorded burial was that of Georgia Missouri
Hollon in 1946. A cemetery association was established in 1947 to maintain and
improve the grounds.