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This burial ground was in use for decades before Tom J. Goodson (1858-1913) and his wife Winnie May (1867-1911) deeded it to the Baptist Church on May 3, 1909. Land gifts in 1945 by their son Lester (1898-1978), and by C.H. Daniel, a local land and sawmill owner who donated land again in 1967, allowed for expansion. The earliest marked graves belong to brothers James A. (1859-1878) and William H. (1861-1878) Proctor, who died just days apart for reasons now forgotten. Buried here are veterans of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, and the cemetery remains a chronicle of generations in the Magnolia area.
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