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CHAPTER 20.
WHITE ROSE CEMETERY. RELIGIOUS AND FRATERNAL
ORGANIZATIONS. RED CROSS ORGANIZATIONS.
WHITE ROSE CEMETERY, WILLS POINT.
No history of Van Zandt county will ever be complete without a
word of commendation of the White Rose cemetery association of
Wills Point. This association has been chartered by the state of
Texas. It purchased a plat of ground which it had laid out in lots
and blocks, with appropriate drives and walks through it.
The association will sell a family lot for ten dollars, and the
purchaser is inhibited from ever selling the lot for more than that
amount. If, after one has bought a lot and chooses to do so, such
purchaser can enter into a contract for the care and upkeep of said
lot for all time to come, by placing with the association a sum of
money or securities to be held in trust, using only the interest ac-
cruing therefrom, for the care and upkeep of the lot, and from
time to time re-investing the principal so as to keep it on an earn-
ing basis. Those, who have no permanent endowment fund and
have friends or relatives buried in White Rose cemetery, are an-
nually requested to donate something for the care and upkeep of
the lot in said cemetery owned by those buried there.
The association employs a sexton annually, whose duty it is to
constantly attend to the cemetery day by day the year round. Kindly
disposed people have by will and otherwise made handsome dona-
tions to the White Rose Cemetery association to be by the same
expended in beautifying the drives and walks of the cemetery, and
to pay for the services of the sexton; and in this way the White
Rose cemetery is being kept as neat and tidy as is a national
cemetery.
RELIGIOUS AND FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COUNTY.
There are organized churches in almost every community in the
county; all, however, of the Protestant faith. They are: The
Primitive Baptists; the Methodist Episcopal Church south; the
Missionary Baptists; the Presbyterians; the Christians; the Holi-
ness; the Adventists and the Apostolics. There are two branches
or organizations of the Baptist church; one known as the "board"
and one as the "anti-board or convention." The difference be-
tween the two not being a matter of faith, but a matter of control
of finances. There are also two branches or organizations of the
Presbyterian church; one known as the Cumberland Presbyterian
and the other the Presbyterian church United States of America.
There are also two branches or organizations of the Christian
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Manning, Wentworth. Some History of Van Zandt County, Volume 1, book, 1919; Des Moines, Iowa. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth61110/m1/212/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .