Thomas Tracy - Edgewood, TX
N 32° 41.796 W 095° 52.594
15S E 230320 N 3621312
Thomas Tracy is buried near the railroad tracks along Front Street, slightly east of the center of Edgewood, TX. He was killed by a train in 1889.
Waymark Code: WMP5AZ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/04/2015
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Older photos of the gravesite show that it was once protected by a metal pipe fence. Unfortunately, that is no longer here, and the headstone has been broken. It is a white, marble headstone, featuring clasped hands below "Farewell", with this inscription:
Thomas Tracy
Killed
By Train on T. & P.
Railway
March 28, 1889
Rest in Peace
The best we can glean is that Mr. Tracy was a section foreman for the T & P Railroad, and when last seen, he was headed for Edgewood from Wills Point, possibly intoxicated. As the section house in Edgewood was near the site where they found his body, one can speculate that something happened either when he tried to disembark, or that he was hit while walking back to the section house. Regardless, for whatever reason, he was buried right next to the tracks. A May 30, 1985 edition of The Edgewood Enterprise has some background, as well as a photo of an earlier headstone, broken. (
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