Arcadia Evergreen Cemetery
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N 29° 25.681 W 095° 06.811
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Arcadia Evergreen Cemetery is located at the end of Oak Lane off of Cemetery Road.
Waymark Code: WMRG34
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/21/2016
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The Texas Historical Marker on Cemetery Road gives the history of the area and of this cemetery.
In 1890 Henry J. Runge laid out the town of Arcadia at the site of a railroad depot on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad near here known as Hall's Station. Sometime between 1890 and 1897, Evergreen Cemetery was established to serve the growing community of Arcadia. The first person known to be buried here was Susan Carswell Sims (d. 1897).
The Evergreen Cemetery Association was formed in 1906; J. L. Polinard, R. H. Romine, and S. A. Franks were the original trustees. That same year the cemetery was granted a state charter and in 1907 Henry Runge deeded the 2-acre Evergreen Cemetery plot to the association. At that time the cemetery contained 13 known gravesites. Between 1906 and 1949 at least 47 people are known to have been buried here.
When the charter was not renewed in 1956 the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce stepped in and led a successful effort for its renewal in 1958. The purpose of the cemetery under the new charter was to provide a burial place for indigent residents of Arcadia. The last person buried in Evergreen Cemetery was Josephine Short in 1958.
Grounds restoration by Arcadia volunteers and construction of a road to the cemetery by Galveston County were completed in 1972.
All but a handful of headstones remain. A large tablet near the gate bears the names of those interred here:
Susan Carswell Sims 1858-1897
Onete Franks 1896-1897
Anna B. Hutchison 1877-1899
A.K.N.
Blata Hoteman 1820-c1903
Florence Junnie Romine 1892-1903
Juanita Coker -1904
Fannie Baker 1873-1904
B. Monroe Franks 1851-1904
Frank V. Duncan 1903-1904
Mary C. Pourchot 1853-1905
Benjamin C. Meek -1905
Orval McCarty 1904-1905
Cora Tee Pourchot 1885-1905
J.L. Polinard infant son -1906
Bertha L. Gilbert -1907
John H. Grider 1865-1909
August Pourchot 1834-1909
Andrew J. Hawkins 1829-1909
Dossie Davis 1893-1910
Albert Davis 1885-c1910
Phebe F. Breed 1828-1910
John Cheford Sturm 1909-1910
Morant Cheek 1910-1911
Fay Powers -1911
Judith Vans Powers 1879-1911
James W. Shules 1866-1911
Elizabeth Hawkins Romine 1874-1911
Henry J. Breed 1828-1911
Henry Newton Franks 1843-1911
Harry Thomas Wilson 1910-1912
Elizabeth H. Locke -1913
Simeon A. Franks 1848-1914
Eva May Romine 1909-1914
Alex Lewis 1914-1915
James Robert Meek 1857-1916
Anna Lassen 1852-1918
Clifford Robertson 1886-1920
Mary Jane Hendrick 1920-1921
Doris Elizabeth Minson 1919-1Xxx
Herman E. Lassen 1841-1922
Robert Louis Colton 1922-1923
Leary H. Auck 1892-1923
Christiana Baly 1922-1923
George H. Tully -1924
Nancy Cooper Romine (illegible)-1926
Lee Chiles infant -1926
Sevno Espinoza -1928
Charles Walker infant –c1929
Arthur Franks 1887-c1930
James Franks infant son -1930
Alice E. Day 1869-c1931
Charlie E. Day 1859-1932
Walter T. Day 1866-1933
Hattie Franks 1853-c1933
Gus Oleson 1860-1935
Venalu Hendrick 1929-1936
Chris Hillerman 1882-c1947
Robert Henry Romine 1870-1947
Ambrose Miller –c1949
Josephine Short 1880-1958
It is interesting that one of the few remaining headstones is a Woodman of the World marker belonging to Simeon A. Franks. Mr. Franks was one of the original trustees of Arcadia Evergreen Cemetery. (Photo included)
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: (Arcadia) Incorporated by Santa Fe, TX
Approximate number of graves: 70
Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained
Cemetery Website: Not listed
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