Proctor Cemetery

Proctor began as Mooresville. The Handbook says Thomas O. Moore came west for his health in 1872 and sent his friend Alexander Watson Proctor ahead to build a store, so the place was known locally as Mooresville. A post office ran from 1874 to 1881. In the early 1890s the railroad missed the old town by a mile, and a new townsite at the stopping point, first called Camden, was surveyed, with lots on sale in 1891. By 1915 it had a bank, two gins and a newspaper. The town declined once US 377 bypassed it around 1930.

What the plaque says

Proctor Cemetery The land on which this cemetery is located was once part of a farm owned by the pioneer Larkin Gyger family. The first person interred here was W.B. Long (1817-1875), a Methodist minister and neighbor of the Gyger family. As the small town of Proctor began to grow with the arrival of the railroad in the 1890s, this gradually became a community graveyard. Fifty-seven of the graves are from the nineteenth century. Also buried here are nine veterans of the Civil War. A cemetery association, organized in 1940, maintains the historic burial ground. (1988)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dublin Bottling Works — 7.0 mi
  The Erath County plant that bottled Dr Pepper with cane sugar from 1891 until a 2012 settlement ended its Dr Pepper license, and that still makes its own sodas the same way.
• Hamilton County Courthouse — 27 mi
  A limestone courthouse of 1886-87 on the Hamilton square, built after the county's 1878 courthouse burned, enlarged in the early 1930s and rededicated in 2012 after restoration.

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