Thurber Cemetery
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N 32° 30.675 W 098° 25.092
14S E 554647 N 3597255
Texas Historical Marker commemorating the Thurber Cemetery, one of the few remaining documents of one of the best-known ghost towns in Texas. Located along old Hwy 108, a dirt road you can follow from the parking lot of the Smokestack Restaurant.
Waymark Code: WMAQD9
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/12/2011
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This marker is a replacement for one that was destroyed by a heavy truck.
Marker Number: 5487

Marker Text:

Encompassing slightly more than nine acres, the Thurber Cemetery documents the multi-ethnic Thurber community. The graveyard was divided into three sections with separate entrances: Catholic, Protestant, and African American. There are more than 1,000 graves here, including almost 700 unmarked burials. The oldest tombstone is that of Eva Chapman, an infant who died in 1890. More than half the total graves are those of infants and children, a reflection of such epidemic diseases as scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and whooping cough.

Historic Texas Cemetery - 2000
Marker is Property of the State of Texas
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