La Feria Cemetery
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PeterNoG
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This Texas Historical Marker is at the Cemetery on Memorial Drive (County Road 814) about 1300 feet west of Rabb Road.
Waymark Code: WMJP8Q
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/12/2013
Views: 1
Marker Title: La Feria Cemetery
City: La Feria
County: Cameron
Subject Codes: graveyards
Year Marker Erected: 1990
Designations: na
Marker Location: Memorial Dr and, 1300 feet west of Rabb Rd
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 2994
Marker Text:
This community graveyard dates to 1917, when Bernt Anderson deeded land for that purpose. The first recorded burials in the cemetery were of two children: Valda Wessels (1918-1920) and Harry P. McNeil, Jr. (1919-1921). A plot in the northwest corner of the cemetery is known as "Babyland" and contains the unmarked graves of several children. Also interred here are community leaders and veterans of the Spanish American War, World War I, and World War II. Some families have buried several generations in the quiet graveyard.
(1990)
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