SNOW HILL COMMUNITY, CEMETERY & BAPTIST CHURCH

     Snow Hill Baptist Church about 1900 - 1910.

                             This is the place! Stand still, my steed,

                                 Let me review the scene,

                            And summon from the shadowy Past

                                 The forms that once have been.

                                                              Longfellow

"When I first came to Texas in 1867,there were very few people here,mostly men with two six-shooters on their belts,wearing spurs and with lariats on the saddle.The one could cuss the loudest was the Man."

George Jeffcoat   March 15,1915

   The first settlers were Alfred Markham Thompson and extended family and friends down from Greene County, Missouri in 1850. The earliest known burial in the cemetery is that of Jane Freeman dated 1855. There were probably some few others before and now perhaps as many as 100 or more unmarked graves in the older western section. Alfred operated a sawmill in 1855 and a grist mill for corn in the early 1870s.The Mill was located on nearby Pilot Grove Creek. I Will post the surviving receipts for these early business's shortly. The 1881 Collin County Land Survey map shows the Thompson Bridge on Pilot Grove Creek.. It is probable,as was the custom of the times, this was a toll bridge and appears to be situated on the road to Verona and up to Stony Point. The Thompson School House was in use by 1870 and a Church begun at least by 1881 likely in the same building as shown on the 1881 Map. The present Snow Hill Baptist Church was organized in the spring of 1893 and the building constructed in 1900. Reverend Dwayne Atterberry is now the Pastor.

   The State of Texas has just recently granted the Cemetery Designated Texas Historic Cemetery Status.An historical marker will be available around May or June,2011.(Cancelled by disgruntled Cemetery Board Members Bill Stroup,sister Betty Vamvakas and daughter Mary Vamvakas Nov.2010)* Alfred Thompson,N.B.Campbell and J.R.Campbell deeded the land for the Cemetery to the people of the Thompson Community in 1885.

   There are four marked graves of Confederate Soldiers;

B.C.Reynolds           Co.A   Morelands Alabama Cavalry

John J,McDonald      Co.C   9th Texas Cavalry

Joseph Thompson     Captain Alf Johnson's Texas Spy Company

Joseph U.King          6th NC Cavalry/25th NC Infantry

     I have ordered the following CSA markers for known Confederate soldiers:

Soloman Baker        Co.K   7th Texas Cavalry

George E.Bowman   Farmersville Militia (placed April 30,2011)

Thomas F.Driggers   Co.A   22nd Texas Cavalry (placed April 30,2011)

John Hurst               Co.A   63rd.Tennessee Infantry (placed April 30,2011)

George Jeffcoat        Co.A   59th.Alabama Infantry

William H.McCarley   Captain Alf Johnson's Independent Texas Spy Company

Thomas P.Reed        Co.F   5th.Texas Partisan Rangers

Dennis B.Thomas      Co.F   Colonel James Bourland's Border Regiment of Texas Cavalry (placed July 2012)

James Thompson      Co.E   22nd.Texas Cavalry (placed April 30,2011) 

Wilson McDonald      Co.G  22nd. Texas Cavalry

Alf Johnson's Texas Spy Co. CSA