Eagle Creek Cemetery
Eagle Creek Cemetery is located west of Harleton, Texas
on Hwy 154 W.(Approximately 15 miles west of Marshall) It was established
in 1852 by Tyre Elias and Vashti Daugherty Gibbs Narramore. They arrived
in Texas in 1832 from Georgia and settled in the Smyra community. Vashti,
age 21 was single with children of a previous marriage. She was one
of the first women in Texas to receive a Land Patent, a 640 acre tract,
still called the Vashti Gibbs survey. Vashti and Tyre were married
in 1839.
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