Macedonia Cemetery

According to local tradition, a congregation known as the O'Possum Creek Church built an all-faiths sanctuary in this area as early as 1858. During the 1860s the Macedonia community began to develop as English and German immigrants settled in the area. During the 1870s Macedonia developed into a thriving community consisting of the Macedonia Baptist Church, a Masonic lodge, a gin, a granary, and a general store. A parcel of land that later included the cemetery was donated to the community by the S. A. Spiars family sometime before the first recorded burial there, that of J. C. Witt on April 22, 1874. Macedonia residents and businesses began to disperse after the town of Granger was established about two miles east in the early 1880s on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad. Eventually, the last remaining physical evidence of the once-thriving community of Macedonia was the graveyard. The cemetery was abandoned until 1971, when descendants of people buried there formed a cemetery association to restore and preserve it. It remains in use and includes the burials of area pioneers and their descendants and Civil War veterans.

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