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 Dothan Cemetery
N 32° 23.782 W 099° 06.578
14S E 489688 N 3584375
Texas Historical Marker at the Dothan Cemetery, providing some background on this cemetery and the community that it once served.
Waymark Code: WM108ZC
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2019
Views: 2
Marker Number: 17088
Marker Text:
The Texas and Pacific Railway built the Delmar depot near here in 1880 before rail activity shifted to Red Gap (later Cisco). A new community named Dothan formed and gained a post office in 1902. Jim and Manirval (Short) Dunaway, who settled here in 1886, donated land for a community cemetery. The first burial was their great-grandson, Carroll Leo Dunaway, in 1905. Dothan included a school and stores and by 1915 reported a population of fifty. The school closed in 1940. Family and friends have always maintained the cemetery, which features granite, limestone and fieldstone grave markers, a wire perimeter fence, and at least 22 veterans' graves. The Dothan Cemetery Association formed in 1989 to preserve this historic vestige of a rural community.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2010
Marker is Property of the State of Texas
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