Welcome to the Highland Cemetery Melissa Texas
Click headstone find loved one’s burial location in the Highland Cemetery from your phone, tablet or computer.
The Highland Cemetery Association. Is proud to be the first cemetery in North Texas to offer a GIS mapping interface which will allow the Highland Cemetery visitors to find their loved one’s cemetery plots and burial locations in the Highland Cemetery.
Anyone with a laptop, iPad, iPhone, or android type product will be able to find where their loved one is buried, and it is also a great genealogical research tool.
Highland Cemetery Melissa, Collin County, Texas
The Highland Community was established in the mid-1800s as a stop on the stage route between Buckner (approximate 3 miles West of the present site of McKinney and Bonham. An early settler, Charles H. Wysong, donated 3 acres of land for a community Church,School and Cemetery in 1858. The first marked grave, that of Robert Strother, Is dated 1861. Many north central Collin County pioneers and their descendants are buried here. The graveyard is cared for by the Highland Cemetery Association, Organized more than one hundred years ago.
“The software thru Find a Grave offers"
Opportunities for family’s wanting to add to the history of their family and their loved ones a retention and retrieval system. It is capable of storing their obituary, family photos, birth certificates and any family history or documents they would want to share.”.