Baccus Cemetery

Baccus Cemetery. . This cemetery was originally known as Cook Cemetery. Henry Cook founded the cemetery on his property to bury his son, Daniel, who died January 13, 1847. This is the earlist known marked burial in Plano., Henry Cook (1775-1862) settled in the area in 1845 as a Peters Colonist as part of a (Republic of Texas) land grant given to investors led by William S. Peters. His house, which was situated near the present cemetery, served as a landmark on the Shawnee Trail., The Shawnee Trail was one of the earliest of the great cattle trails and a major route for settlers entering Texas. The trail extended from south of Austin: north through Waco, Dallas, and the Plano area: across the Red River into what is now Oklahoma., Near Fort Gibson, OK, it split into several branches that terminated at cattle markets in Kansas and Missouri. Shortly after the Civil War, the fencing of former open property forced the trail's closure. The Shawnee Trail was replaced by routes such as the Chisholm Trail and Goodnight-Loving Trail which were farther to the west., Captions , Lower Left: The Shawnee Trail in earlier years, 1867-75. , Lower Middle: Early Plano pioneer couple on the trail. , Lower Right: Several members of the Cook, Heustis, and Bishop families, including C.L. Bishop (far left, rear) and Elizabeth Heustis (far right), are interred in Baccus Cemetery. , Middle Upper Right: 50th Anniversary of C.S. and Nannie Kute Lunsford Haggard, members of Plano's early families. Members of the immediate and extended family are buried in Baccus Cemetery. , Upper Right: Originally from Virginia (now West Virginia), Henry Cook was a Veteran of the War of 18 12. Lieutenant Cook was a French and Native American interpreter., Photographs courtesy of the Frances Well/Texana Collection, Gladys Harrington Library, Plano Public Library System, Plano, Texas