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Donna Spears recounts legal, survey work that secured Smith Family Cemetery
Summary
Donna Spears told the commission how genealogical research, a retracement survey and ground-penetrating radar helped secure the Smith Family Cemetery’s designation as a historic Texas cemetery and protect it from nearby development.
Donna Spears, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, told the Flower Mound Historical Commission on Monday how she and her husband fought to preserve a small family burial plot in Dallas County that dates to the 1800s.
Spears recounted tracking the cemetery to Thomas Smith (born 1784), researching deed records and hiring a retracement surveyor to map the site against an 1877 county survey. She said ground-penetrating radar identified "probably 10" potential graves and that she filed a notice of existence of cemetery in the Dallas County deed records in August 2014. "They identified probably 10," Spears said when asked about the radar results. The commission was told that…
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