Antelope Cemetery
Antelope, Jack County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Established as early as 1882 (date of the oldest tombstone). Site was sold to Antelope Methodist Church in 1890 by Texas Land & Mortgage Company. The church deeded tract to the Antelope Cemetery Association in 1954. W. R. Hill gave an additional 2-acre tract in 1955. (1969)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
The oldest tombstone in this Jack County cemetery dates to 1882, marking the burial ground of the small community of Antelope. In 1890 the site passed to the Antelope Methodist Church, which held it until deeding the tract to a cemetery association in 1954, with an added parcel given the following year.
Why it matters
The cemetery records the church-centered rural settlements that dotted North Texas in the late nineteenth century, many now surviving mainly through the graves they left behind.
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