Grange Hall Cemetery - Rio Vista, Texas
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N 32° 13.667 W 097° 23.961
14S E 650823 N 3566807
A well maintained cemetery with current usage and about 400 internments.
Waymark Code: WMAH86
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/16/2011
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A Texas Historical Marker describes the cemetery.
"Nolands River was an early Johnson County community, established in the late 1850s. A local club of the Grange, a farmers’ fraternal organization, organized her in 1874, and built a two-story meeting hall called “Grange Hall” that also housed a local school, church and Masonic lodge. In 1878, W.P. and S.M. Kizziar donated land to the Masonic lodge for use as a cemetery. Of the hundreds of marked graves in Grange Hall Cemetery, more than half date from before 1900. Several early unknown burials are marked by rocks or Bois D’Arc posts. The Menefee family reunion has been held here or nearby annually since 1891. Grange Hall declined after the nearby railroad town of Rio Vista was established in the 1880s.
Historic Texas Cemetery – 2006"
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Not listed
Approximate number of graves: Not listed
Cemetery Status: Not listed
Cemetery Website: Not listed
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