Old Alton Cemetery 20210609_091851OLD ALTON CEMETERY
WITH BURIALS DATING TO 1852, THIS GRAVEYARD IS ASSOCIATED WITH
SOME OF THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT IN DENTON COUNTY. IN THAT YEAR,
REBECCA DAUGHERTY, DAUGHTER OF ONE OF THE PIONEER FAMILIES, DIED
AND WAS BURIED ON FAMILY PROPERTY, OVER TIME, BURIALS OF
NEIGHBORS AND RELATIVES CONTINUED ON THE SITE, AND IN 1909 THE
LAND WAS DONATED AND DEDICATED AS A PRIVATE CEMETERY,
ALTON WAS THE COUNTY SEAT OF DENTON COUNTY FROM 1851 UNTIL
1856. LOCATED ON HICKORY CREEK, THE COMMUNITY FLOURISHED WITH
STORES, A HOTEL, POST OFFICE, 'SCHOOL AND OTHER BUSINESSES,
NEARBY IS THE HICKORY CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH, ORGANIZED IN THE
ALTON COMMUNITY IN 1855, WHEN THE COUNTY SEAT WAS MOVED TO
DENTON IN
1856,
ALTON BEGAN
TO
DECLINE, BUT MANY FAMILIES
CONTINUED
TO BURY
THEIR DEAD IN
THIS
CEMETERY,
THE GRAVEYARD CONTAINS MORE THAN 600 BURIALS, INCLUDING 20
GRAVES THAT ARE UNMARKED AND 55 BURIALS THAT ARE MARKED ONLY
WITH ROCKS OR SANDSTONE, PIONEERS, VETERANS AND OTHERS WITH
TIES TO THE OLD ALTON COMMUNITY REST HERE. THE OLD ALTON
MEMORIAL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION CARES FOR THE GRAVES AND
GATHERS ANNUALLY IN THE SPRING FOR DECORATION DAY, AS THE AREA
BECOMES MORE URBAN, THE OLD ALTON CEMETERY STANDS AS A
REMINDER OF THE REGION'S RURAL PAST.
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