Wellborn Cemetery - College Station, TX, USA
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N 30° 31.994 W 096° 17.947
14R E 759136 N 3380978
Citizens of Wellborn fought with the city of College Station to protect itself from being incorporated into the city but they lost the battle 14 April 2011.
Waymark Code: WMP0ND
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/05/2015
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The three acre cemetery has approximately 503 graves.
Burying children seemed to become a common occurrence in the late 1800s. The oldest graves are children. Newton Farquhar died at the age of 2 on October 20, 1874. His siblings Albert and Eva died in 1886, only 10 days apart. Later more siblings Pauline and David died in 1887, 1 day apart. Was it an epidemic of Yellow Fever or Typhoid that took the lives of the innocent young children? The only remaining Farquhar child was Claude and he died on April 11, 1889. Numerous headstones within the cemetery are marked with angels, baby shoes, rocking chairs, hats, bonnets and toys.
There are seven unknowns lying within the Wellborn cemetery. It was reported that convicts working on the railway were shot trying to escape and were buried within these gates. It was also reported that guards, McMinn and McCarley were murdered by convicts. Both were laid to rest in the Wellborn Cemetery, McCarley is in an unmarked location within the cemetery.
The Wellborn Cemetery boasts of the fact that within its walls are veterans of nearly every war in which Americans have shed blood. Records show that one of the oldest veterans buried in the cemetery is that of Adam Royder, a Civil War veteran.
There are also a number of Masons, Eastern Stars, and Woodsmen of the World.
Taken from Brazos County History: (
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