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 Counts Cemetery
N 32° 01.703 W 099° 45.191
14S E 428878 N 3543829
Texas Historical Marker at the Counts Cemetery, nearly seventeen miles northeast of Winters on Runnels County Rd 181, providing some history of this small active cemetery of about 300 burials.
Waymark Code: WM12MDF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/14/2020
Views: 3
Marker Number: 1083
Marker Text:
Earliest known interment was that of a child, Mary Louisa Hale, on Nov. 30, 1880. In Jan. 1884, Andy and Christian Fannin sold 4 acres to M.C. Bright, J.M. Carter, R.F. Counts, John A. Chambers, J.M. Givens, D.W. and William Hale, Alf A. Hanscomb, J.T. Hardegree, P. Hawkins, F.B. Massengale, Jesse Rogers, and C.C. Simmons as a public cemetery for the rural community of "Content". The plot was named for R.F. Counts, who bought the surrounding property in 1889. An additional 4 acres were donated by Sidney Bright in the 1930s. An unknown number of Confederate veterans of the Civil War are buried here. (1975)
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Marker sponsors: Frances and Sheila Allen
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