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From: "Linda or Duane Hileman" <>
Subject: Re: [MODALLAS] Antioch Cemetery, church, etc.
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:18:16 -0500
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Gary, Linda, and others--
I do have some family from the Antioch Cem. area. My Ware Long died between
1850-1860 and is buried in Antioch Cem. He is listed on page 322 of the
1850 Dallas Co. Census as:
Wiry Long 65 Charemaker SC
Nancy 45 TN
Charles D. 18 TN
Lucinda 14 TN
Rebecca 13 TN
John C. 7 TN
Lucinda married my Barnard Eagon, and her sister Rebecca married Peter
Clark.
Ware also had 2 children by his first wife, Martha or "Patsy" who died in
TN. Those children were James Ware Long and Elizabeth Isabell Long. James
Ware had a daughter named Lucy who 2nd married A.L. Babb (preacher Babb).
So he was not actually the grandson of Ware Long as stated in the Letter,
but grandson-in-law.
I would be glad to help Linda restore this cemetery. My grandmother, Bertha
Engle, had a sketch of the "Clark" cemetery. Do you think this is the same
one? Linda Hileman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Swift" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MODALLAS] Antioch Cemetery, church, etc.


> Linda is doing a very interesting study of the Old Antioch Church
> and cemetery. Other names associated with it, taken from the old
> letter in the history book she mentions are:
> Charles Davis; Woodford Davis; Willis and Isabel (McMurtry) Davis and
> their daughter Martha Viana (author of the letter), their sons James
> Franklin, John and Jo (Joe), and their daughter Sarah Jane;
> Bill Potter; Branick Wilkerson; Jim Yates; John McMurtrey; Lawson T.
> Satterfield; Tom Hutchison; John Pendergraft; Jimmy Johnson (might
> be Johnston?); Dan Mury (Murry?); Sam Gregg.
>
> The letter also says:
> "I am going to tell some of the names of the members of the Old Antioch
> church. I will commence with the ones that lived the closest. Wire Long
> was the closest, got water at the spring - he was the grand-father of
> Brother Babb (preacher Babb), then came the Clarkes [Clarks] and the
> Coxes, Billoues, Eddington and Rices, Hutchisons, O'Bannons, Davisons,
> Powells, Welches, Davis', Swifts and Johnsons [I think this should
> be Johnstons --gary], Proctors, Kellys, Ropers and Engels."
>
> From land records it looks like the sequence of names from O'Bannons
> through Swifts and Johnsons appears to roughly follow modern Highway F
> north from March.
>
> Does anyone have any information on these families, or the ones Linda
> names, in connection with the Antioch shed, church, cemetery or camp?
>
> --gary
>
> Linda Crawford wrote:
> >
> > I am off on a new search. This time I need help with Antioch Cemetery,
shed, church and campground. The church was a Christian Church and according
to a letter in the Dallas County History Book it was started circa 1840, but
services were probably not held after 1863. Although today I found a
newspaper article from January 1890 that states they would like to build a
new Antioch Church house. The cemetery was called Clark when a military
stone was placed on the grave of Daniel Clark in 1900. After the Civil War
Daniel Clark's widow owned land by the cemetery. Also known buried there are
W.H. Eddington and his 2nd wife Nancy Rice, David Pierce ,who was a
son-in-law of the Eddingtons, J. W. Wilkinson, Abraham Davis and Axa Ann
Cox. I am sure there are more burials. These families all lived in the area
of Antioch which is located south of Buffalo along side the new Highway 65.
If anyone has any information on any of the families named above or Antioch
shed, church, campground!
> a!
> > nd cemetery I would like to hear from you. The exact location of
Antioch can be found by using the maps Gary Swift has places on the website.
As far as is known I am not connected to any of those families, just a love
of history of old forgotten and neglected places that I would like to see
brought back to memory. The cemetery is in deplorable condition. Linda
Fowler Crawford
>

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