Pickwick-McAdams Cemetery
Historical Marker Text
Tennessee native Capt. William Carroll McAdams
(1825-1906) came to Texas in the 1840s, served as a Texas Ranger, and
fought in the Mexican war (1846-1848). McAdams and his wife Ann
(Alexander) acquired this land in 1854 and began cattle raising. The
cemetery opened after the death of Mrs. McAdams. The first marked grave
is that of Mary M. Couger in 1889. McAdams Cemetery served the Pickwick
Community (now under the lake). In 1940 graves were moved here from
Carter Bend Cemetery which was on the proposed Possum Kingdom Lake
site.
1979
location: from Graford take Highway 254 west
about 8 miles to P 36 and follow P 36 west about 3 miles |
