Peaster Cemetery - Peaster, Texas
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N 32° 52.554 W 097° 51.525
14S E 606762 N 3638106
A small rural community cemetery with about 200 internments.
Waymark Code: WMAD94
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/30/2010
Views: 8
The nearby Texas Historical Marker states;
"South Carolina native Henry H. Peaster purchased 160 acres here in 1870. The village of Peaster began with Henry Peaster's sale of town lots here in the late 1880s. The earliest recorded burial is that of Mary D. Hunt in 1886. In 1893 Peaster donated two acres here for cemetery purposes. Still active, the cemetery contains the graves of early area settlers and their descendants; veterans of the Civil War, World War I, and World War II; and Peaster's most famous citizen, John Alexander Fox, who created the "Buster Brown" character for the Buster Brown Shoe Company's advertising campaign."
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Not listed
Approximate number of graves: Not listed
Cemetery Status: Not listed
Cemetery Website: Not listed
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