Brushwood Cemetery
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PeterNoG
N 26° 18.339 W 098° 08.484
14R E 585705 N 2909817
This Texas Historical Marker is in Brushwood Cemetery which is just east of Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery on East Richardson Road(FM 2128), 1/4 mile east of US Hwy 281 Expressway in Edinburg, Texas.
Waymark Code: WMK1C3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/29/2014
Views: 2
It's right beside a Marker for Richard Alvis Marsh.
Marker Title: Brushwood Cemetery
Address:
City: Edinburg
County: Hidalgo
Subject Codes: graveyards; Spanish immigrants/immigration; German immigrants/immigration; Irish immigrants/immigration
Year Marker Erected:
Designations: na
Marker Location: Schunior St. (FM 2128), 3 mi. east of US 281, Edinburg
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 546
Marker Text:
Brushwood Cemetery was established as a municipal burial ground for the town of Chapin (now Edinburg) in 1913, five years after the town's founding. The earliest known burial here was that of Antonia Hernandez de Ramos, who died in 1913. Older graves dating to 1898 were relocated here from El Granjeno Cemetery near the town of Mission. More than 1,000 graves are located here. Tombstones bear Anglo, Spanish, German, and Irish surnames and document the diversity of peoples that helped build Edinburg and other communities in the vicinity.
(1992)
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