Benton City Cemetery
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N 29° 12.403 W 098° 46.864
14R E 521282 N 3230908
This post-mounted subject marker stands outside the gate to the cemetery, next to FM 3175 in Lytle.
Waymark Code: WM13F8V
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/28/2020
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
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Marker erected by the Texas State Historical Survey Committee.

City: Lytle
County: Atascosa
Subject Codes graveyards
Marker Year 1970
Marker Location: from Lytle, west on FM 3175.
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 373

Marker Text:

(established 1870)

First public cemetery in this community, which was famous in early days for its outstanding school, aggressive businesses, and newspaper, the Benton City "Era".

Site was given by James M. Jones, farmer - livestock raiser and leading citizen, whose rock house stood nearby. Jones and family moved here in 1869, when Atascosa County (with Amphion the county seat was a frontier region of South Texas.

Interred here are pioneers and veterans of Indian warfare, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and other conflicts.

(1970)
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