FIRST Burial in Garden City Cemetery -- Garden City TX
N 31° 50.366 W 101° 29.658
14R E 263957 N 3525349
An unnamed infant, the child of Sullivan and Lucy Hill, was the first burial in this historic Texas cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMJKZ0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/01/2013
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The first burial in the historic Garden City Cemetery was made in 1886, when County Commissioner Sullivan Hill and his wife Lucy buried an infant here. Four years later, a sibling would join this child in the same cemetery. Both children who died within days of their births, are memorialized by a single tombstone in the Sullivan family plot where they lie next to their parents.
A State historic marker for this cemetery reads as follows: (
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"GARDEN CITY CEMETERY
The Garden City community began using this burial ground as early as 1886. That year, a child of County Commissioner Sullivan Hill and his wife, Lucy, was buried here. Four years later, a sibling was buried at the same spot; the two graves share a single stone.
The Hill family plot, where Sullivan and Lucy are also buried, is one of many in the cemetery representing the early area settlers. Other early family names found throughout the burial ground are Hanson, Gooch and Cox. Family plots are typically bordered by concrete curbing. Most gravestones are vertical, especially in the older section of the cemetery, which is indicated by the remaining decorative iron fencing. Some of the individual family plots also include original fencing.
In 1914, John Etheridge and Perneice Gore Lawler formally designated the original one-acre tract as a cemetery. Today, the county maintains the burial ground, to which three acres were later added. As the final resting place of many of the early settlers and their descendants, the cemetery is a significant link to the community’s history.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2003"
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