Locklin Cemetery
Historical Marker Text
Abigale McLennan Fokes acquired a Mexican land
grant here in 1835. Peter M. Mercer established a blacksmith shop in
this area in the early 1840s. His burial in 1844 is the first recorded
in this cemetery. Fokes later set aside this site for cemetery purposes.
The cemetery is believed to be named for the extended family of early
area settler William Lawson Locklin. It presently contains about 400
burials including many of this area's frontier settlers and their
descendants and veterans of the Texas revolution and Republic of Texas
army. It continues to serve the area.
1994
location: approx. 1.2 mi. east of San Gabriel;
5 mi. west of Thorndale off FR 486
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