Black Springs Cemetery
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txoilgas
N 32° 57.659 W 098° 09.567
14S E 578556 N 3647275
A roadside marker that describes a nearby cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMAEC4
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/04/2011
Views: 9
Marker Number: 424
Marker Text:
(220 yards east)
Originally known as the Black Springs Cemetery, the nearby burial ground was established to serve pioneer settlers of the Keechi Valley and the settlement of Black Springs. The earliest marked grave is that of Mary A. Lasater (1841-1871). Land for the cemetery was deeded by Silas Adam Sheek, stepfather of the noted Texas cattleman Charles Goodnight. Renamed Oran Cemetery when a new community name was selected in 1886, it includes the graves of Goodnight's mother Charlotte Sheek (1810-1882), Civil War veterans, pioneer settlers and early community leaders. (1982)
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