FIRST - Burial in Cemetery - Darrouzett, TX
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N 36° 26.955 W 100° 20.448
14S E 379842 N 4034614
Frass family tombstone is a huge cross, with each family member with normal stones around it.
Waymark Code: WM137D0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/03/2020
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County of Marker: Lipscomb County
Location of Marker: TX-15, just W. of Darrouzett, 10 miles E. of Booker
Marker Erected by: Historic Texas Cemetery ~ Texas Historical Commission
Date Marker Erected: 2005
Marker Text:
DARROUZETT CEMETERY
The community of Darrouzett began in 1917 as a station along the Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway. First named Lourwood, the early settlement was renamed by the Rail Company in honor of a Galveston-area legislator and attorney, J.L. Darrouzett. When the town incorporated in 1920, the year of the rail line's completion, more than 400 people lived in Darrouzett and supported several businesses, a school, two churches and a post office. Early residents used family cemeteries and graveyards in other communities for burials.
In 1939, Anna Frass and her family deeded several acres to the trustees of the newly formed Darrouzett Cemetery Association. She moved the graves of Henry Frass (d. 1932), her late husband, and granddaughter Esther Lee Frass (d. 1926) here from Lipscomb, and other families also reinterred loved ones here. The first burial at the cemetery was that of David Rush in January 1939. Rush, a local farmer and businessman, is one of numerous military veterans buried here; others include two men killed in action in Vietnam. Each grave at the cemetery is a reminder of individuals who contributed to Darrouzett history.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2005
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