McMillen Cemetery

The cemetery sits on land of the family that settled this corner of Collin County. Comfort Allen McMillen and Lydia Maxwell left Arkansas in 1845 and reached what is now Maxwell Creek on January 1, 1846. Their son Andy, born there in 1847, was called the county's oldest native-born white citizen when he died in 1921, though Joy Gough notes other families claim that distinction. The 1.75 acres were deeded to Corinth Presbyterian Church. Some county maps label it the Maxwell cemetery, which lies about a mile south.

What the plaque says

McMillen Cemetery McMILLEN CEMETERY ESTABLISHED 1901 HISTORIC TEXAS CEMETERY – 2010

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary — 8.8 mi
  A 289-acre sanctuary in McKinney that Bessie Heard founded at the age of 80, with five habitats, a 50-acre wetland and 6.5 miles of trails.
• Rockwall County Historical Foundation & Museum — 12 mi
  A small museum in Harry Myers Park that keeps the evidence on Rockwall's rock wall, sandstone dikes that geologists call natural and folk tales call built.
• Fair Park — 19 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 20 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church of Murphy — 0.3 mi
• Murphy Community — 0.9 mi
• Corinth Presbyterian Church — 1.9 mi
• Wylie Methodist Church — 2.1 mi