LARGEST Rural Cemetery in Stephens County, TX - Necessity, TX
N 32° 38.930 W 098° 46.438
14S E 521198 N 3612379
A granite marker stands at the gate to Necessity Cemetery on FM 207, providing some history of both Necessity, TX and the cemetery itself, noting it as the largest rural cemetery in Stephens County.
Waymark Code: WM104M9
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/25/2019
Views: 1
Placed here by the Necessity-Bradshaw Cemetery Association, the monument reads:
Necessity was first organized as a community during the 1870's. The Baptist Church was started in 1876 and was first known as Mountain Valley Baptist Church. Mountain Valley, Cotton Plant and the existing name of Necessity are all names by which this community has been known. The name Necessity derived from the "necessity" for a post office in the late 1800's. With the discovery of oil in 1920 the population exploded. At the height of the boom there were over 20,000 residents and two banks. The cemetery dates from the 1870s. The first land was donated by Joe Crowley and later land purchased from the Galaways. It is under jurisdiction of the Necessity-Bradshaw Cemetery Association organized in 1974. Cemetery workings are the first Saturday in May and September. Cemetery is the largest rural cemetery in Stephens County. The people of Necessity are proud of this community and dedicate this sign to the memory of all those who rest here.
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The main cemetery in the county seat, Breckenridge, has well over seven thousand burials! Nothing has changed since they put up that monument, as there are nearly 900 burials here. The second largest rural cemetery in the county, Hart Cemetery, is at just over 800 burials, located about six miles south of Breckenridge, with Gunsight Cemetery (600+) and Caddo Cemetery (590+) not even close at this time.
Type of documentation of superlative status: Granite monument at cemetery gate
Location of coordinates: Cemetery gate
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