Confederate Veteran's Memorial -- Merriman Cemetery, Merriman TX
N 32° 25.431 W 098° 41.825
14S E 528479 N 3587458
A short grey granite memorial at Merriman cemetery recognizes the Confederate veterans buried here
Waymark Code: WMPVTP
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/26/2015
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Merriman Cemetery in Eastland County TX features a small Confederate Veteran's Memorial near that part of the cemetery where the local men who served as Confederate soldiers are buried.
The memorial reads as follows:
"1861-1865
LEST WE FORGET
dedicated to the memory of those
Confederate veterans, known and unknown,
that served him the South with
honor, courage and valor"
The historical marker for the cemetery reads as follows:
"MERRIMAN CEMETERY
According to local tradition this site was established as a community graveyard about 1873, the year Eastland County was organized and one year prior to the community of Merriman's selection as county seat. Although there are many unmarked gravestones in the cemetery, the earliest recorded burial is that of Orthosias Scarborough (d. 1879). The first legal record of the Merriman Cemetery occurred in a deed executed by the Taylor Charcoal Company conveying two acres for use as a public burial ground to trustee M.V. Brewer in 1891. Oil discovered in 1917 on land owned by John H. McCleskey (buried here in 1918) started an oil boom that ultimately threatened the sanctity of the Merriman Cemetery. Oil speculators reportedly offered members of the Merriman Baptist Church a large sum of money to lease the cemetery grounds for drilling. The congregation, although its association with the cemetery is uncertain, turned the offer down. Josie Fox Duncan (d. 1940) deeded 75 acres to trustees of the cemetery in 1938 to provide an income for its perpetual care. The cemetery contains graves of early settlers, veterans of conflicts from the Civil War to Korea, and victims of a 1916-17 influenza epidemic. (1993) "
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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Photo or photos will be uploaded.: yes
Date Installed or Dedicated: Not listed
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Not listed
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