FIRST Burial in Breckenridge Cemetery - Breckenridge, TX
N 32° 45.032 W 098° 53.305
14S E 510453 N 3623636
A 2011 Texas Historical Marker at Breckenridge Cemetery notes that Dr. Alexander Miller was the first burial here.
Waymark Code: WMZRAN
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/27/2018
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Dr. Miller's white marble obelisk has an urn at the top, and this inscription:
In memory of
Alexander
Miller
Born
in Norfolk, Va.
June 24, 1831
Died
Dec. 27, 1877.
Farewell but not forever.
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The City of Breckenridge website (see URL, below) not only references Dr. Miller as the first burial ("oldest grave"), but also that he was a murder victim, shot by a jealous doctor. It also notes "1877" as the year of burial, which matches Dr. Miller's headstone. The historical marker provides some background, but gives "1872" as the year of death:
The first burial here, for Dr. Alexander Miller, dates from Dec. 27, 1872. W.R. Brown officially patented the land from the State of Texas in 1881 and began selling cemetery plots. The cemetery was dedicated as Oaklawn Cemetery in 1926; some early burials also refer to East Side Cemetery. The cemetery expanded in the 1940s, and in 1952 the cemetery association deeded the property to the City of Breckenridge. Grave markers are primarily sandstone, marble, limestone, granite and bronze. Veterans from the Texas Revolution to the present are interred here. Today, the only cemetery in the city limits numbers more than 10,000 graves, reflecting a continuum of the area’s history from pioneer times to the modern day.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 12/27/1872
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