FIRST - Internment in Kiowa Cemetery - near Booker, TX
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YoSam.
N 36° 24.444 W 100° 30.070
14S E 365398 N 4030183
Another Panhandle ghost town, all that remains are those who passed.
Waymark Code: WMTGZV
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/24/2016
Views: 3
County of Marker: Lipscomb County
Location of Marker: CR-I, 2 miles E. of TX-23, 4 miles S. of Booker
Marker Erected by: Historic Texas Cemetery, Texas Historical Commission
Date Erected: 2007
Marker text:
KIOWA CEMETERY
Named for the nearby creek, Kiowa Cemetery served the residents who settled here in the early 20th Century. The community consisted of Russians of German descent whose families began settling in Russia in the mid-1700s, during the rule of Catherine the Great. In 1910, several of these German-Russian families settled on the Kiowa Creek south of Booker; they soon established a Lutheran Church. Charter members of the church included the Meller, Bechthold and Littau families; all are represented in this burial ground.
The first interment, of Abraham Littau, occurred in 1912. In 1916, Leonhardt and Katherine Littau donated property for use as a cemetery. Today, descendants of the interred care for this burial ground.
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