The Concord Connection

McLennan County, Texas

by Mary F. Makovy and Doris M. Fentress

Copyright 1995-US Library of Congress

Concord Cemetery

         James Parrish and his wife, Elizabeth Boddie Parrish came to Texas from Dale County Alabama in 1865.  They made the journey by covered wagon, drawn by oxen, and settled in the Brazos River Valley, eight miles East of Waco on the banks of Tehuacana Creek.  This area was part of the Thomas de la Vega grant and was wild and unsettled at the time.

The Parrish farm consisted of approximately 800 acres of land, a portion of which extended directly across the road from what in now Concord Cemetery.

          Elizabeth Parrish died November 11, 1869 at her home after the birth of triplets.  It was her request to be buried beside a small church building in the Pleasant Hill community near her home.  She was buried beside the little country church building and became the first person to be buried in the Concord Cemetery, East of Waco, in McLennan County, Texas.  The triplets, who died at birth, were also buried on either side of Mrs. Parrish and at her foot.

          On the 26th day of October, 1870, W. W. Kirkland and his wife Polly Kirkland donated a parcel of land to the church where the cemetery now stands.

          The following list has been researched and recorded by Doris Fentress and Mary Fentress Makovy, direct descendants of James Parrish and his wife, Elizabeth.

Source Material and Acknowledgements

1. McLennan County, Texas Cemetery Records, Volume 2,  Compiled and published by Central Texas Genealogical Society, Inc. Copyright, 1973.

2. Waco News Tribune-Waco Times Herald, Waco, Texas.

3.  Fall & Puckett Funeral Records - Compiled by John M. Usry, 1974.

4.  Historical Southern Families, Volume IX, by John Bennett Boddie, page 236.

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