Hicks Cemetery
Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Settlers in the 1880s established a community here known as Hicks (also spelled Hix), named for a pioneer family. Cooper School served the area beginning in 1885, with J.F. Middlebrooks, P. Paxton and J.H. Gregory as first trustees. George Washington and Levicia (Morton) Jamison bought land from the William Ratliff Survey at this site in 1889 and buried their infant daughter Anna here in September 1893. The surrounding land developed as a burial ground for the original settler families of the Hicks community. The Cooper School was on adjacent land until closing in 1941. Today, shaded by cedar and live oak trees, the cemetery contains more than 40 marked graves and several that are unmarked. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2006
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Settlers in the 1880s founded a community here called Hicks, named for a pioneer family, served by the Cooper School beginning in 1885. In 1889 George Washington and Levicia Jamison bought land at this site and buried their infant daughter Anna here in 1893, and the surrounding ground grew into a burial place for the area's founding families. Shaded by cedar and live oak, the cemetery today holds more than forty marked graves and several unmarked ones.
Why it matters
Small rural cemeteries like this one are often all that remain of the pioneer communities that once dotted the North Texas frontier.
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Related people
- · George Washington Jamison
- · Levicia Morton Jamison
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