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 Cross Plains Cemetery
N 32° 07.492 W 099° 10.236
14S E 483907 N 3554289
Texas Historical Marker at Cross Plains Memorial Park, 100 Chestnut St, Cross Plains, TX, providing some history of the cemetery, which dates to 1882.
Waymark Code: WM109NN
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/27/2019
Views: 2
Marker Number: 17679
Marker Text:
Situated on a flat area near the edge of town, the Cross Plains Cemetery is the final resting place for the town's key leaders and families. The land, originally granted to James Knight, one of Stephen F. Austin’s original colonists, for service in the Mexican-American War, passed to several absentee landowners. The first burial was the son of Uncle Johnnie Lard (Laird) in 1882. In 1905, Thomas F. Steele and his sister, Annie Parsons (Steele) Eager, deeded the land to cemetery trustees. Many military veterans are buried here, along with all of the original cemetery trustees, Cross Plains' first mayor, John A. Wagner, and members of numerous fraternal organizations.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2005
Marker is Property of the State of Texas
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