FIRST Burial in Dothan Cemetery - Eastland County, TX
N 32° 23.776 W 099° 06.539
14S E 489750 N 3584364
A 2010 Texas Historical Marker at the front of Dothan Cemetery, west of Cisco in rural Eastland County, TX, notes that the first burial here was that of Carrol Leo Dunaway, a great-grandson of the cemetery's benefactors.
Waymark Code: WM10AN6
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/02/2019
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This young boy's white marble headstone has some kind of artwork, but time and the elements have weathered it. The inscription is still quite legible, though:
Carrol Leo
Son of
I.B. & N.L. Dunaway
Born Apr. 16, 1904
Died Mar. 7
1905
Short pain, short grief, dear
babe were thine; Now joys
eternal and divine.
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The historical marker provides some background:
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.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 03/07/1905
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