FIRST Burial in Atwell Cemetery - Callahan County, TX
N 32° 15.435 W 099° 07.938
14S E 487538 N 3568958
A brick paver near the Texas Historical Marker for Atwell Cemetery, southeast of Putnam in rural Callahan County, TX, indicates that Elizabeth (Spradling) Jones was the first burial in the cemetery, back in 1917.
Waymark Code: WM108KM
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/21/2019
Views: 1
The Atwell community goes back into the 1880s, but the town wasn't established until 1898. It took nearly twenty years for Atwell to establish its own cemetery, using other nearby burial grounds in the meantime, so this is a fairly young cemetery by area standards. The paver itself is below the Texas Historical Marker for the cemetery -- it doesn't reference the earliest burial at all -- and it simply reads "Elizabeth Spradling Jones First Burial in Atwell Cemetery".
Mrs. Jones shares a modern gray granite headstone with her husband, and it reads:
G.G. Jones
Sept. 17, 1838
Jan. 5, 1925
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Elizabeth, His Wife
Apr. 10, 1838
Jan. 27, 1917
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Asleep in Jesus
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 01/30/1917
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