Miller Grove Cemetery
Cumby, Hopkins County, Texas
Marker Inscription
This burial ground has served the Miller Grove community since it was settled prior to the 1846 formation of Hopkins County. Tradition holds that the James Snow Pippin family donated this land, which started as a family burial ground, for use as a community cemetery. However, the oldest known interments are for infant M.E. Garrett and Arthur M. Stewart, both dating to 1869. Features include monuments dedicated to Woodmen of the World members and military servicemen. The interred veterans served in conflicts dating to the Civil War. The cemetery acquired additional property in 1984 and 2001. Today, the Miller Grove Cemetery Association, formed in 1965, continues to maintain this historic graveyard.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
This graveyard has served the Miller Grove community since before Hopkins County was even formed in 1846, beginning as a family plot said to be donated by the Pippin family and growing into a community cemetery. Its stones include the distinctive tree-stump monuments of the fraternal Woodmen of the World and the graves of veterans reaching back to the Civil War. A cemetery association founded in 1965 still tends the historic ground.
Why it matters
Frontier cemeteries preserve the social fabric of early Texas settlement—family, fraternal lodge, and military service—in one small, enduring plot of ground.
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