Isaac Newton Gresham - Lone Star Cemetery - Point, TX
N 32° 57.012 W 095° 52.584
15S E 231100 N 3649438
Woodmen of the World monument for Isaac Newton Gresham, in Lone Star Cemetery, Point, TX. Gresham was an agrarian spokesman and the founder of the Farmers' Union.
Waymark Code: WMNK3C
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2015
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A Texas Historical Marker provides a short bio:
(Feb. 20, 1858 - April 10, 1906)
In 1902 Alabama native Isaac Newton "Newt" Gresham was a Rains County farmer and newspaper editor. Wishing to help local farmers organize to take advantage of farm prices, he called a meeting in a nearby barn that summer. With an initial membership of ten neighbors, the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America was founded. At first a secret organization, the idea soon spread throughout the South and West. The union eventually became a national organization. Gresham and his wife, Ida May, were the parents of four children.
The inscription on Gresham's monument is:
By the Farmers
Educational and
Cooperative Un-
ion of America,
To the Memory
of its Illust-
ious Founder
Newt Gresham
Born
Feb. 28, 1858,
Died
Apr. 10, 1906.
An epitaph on the base, above the family name, appears to say:
Thy virtuous beauty hath goodness and love.
Was the inscription legible?: Yes
Location of Marker/Monument: Cemetery
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