Aurora Cemetery - Aurora Texas
N 33° 03.203 W 097° 30.051
14S E 639966 N 3658203
Had to submit this after learning of the local legend that an alien spacecraft landed near hear in the 1800's. This tombstone must be for the alien that didnt make landing.
Waymark Code: WM98F8
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/13/2010
Views: 28
From the Nearby State historical marker:
The oldest known graves here, dating from as early as the 1860's, are those of the Randall and Rowlett families. Finis Dudley Beauchamp (1825-1893), a Confederate veteran from Mississippi, donated the 3-acre site to the newly formed Aurora Lodge No. 479, A.F. & A.M., in 1877. For many years, this community burial ground was known as Masonic Cemetery. Beauchamp, his wife Caroline (1829-1915), and others in their family are buried here. An epidemic which struck the village in 1891 added hundreds of graves to the plot. Called "spotted fever" by the settlers, the disease is now though to have been a form of meningitis.
Located in Aurora Cemetery is the gravestone of the infant Nellie Burris (1891-1893) with its often-quoted epitaph: "As I was so soon done, I don't know why I was begun." This site is also well known because of the legend that a spaceship crashed nearby in 1897 and the pilot, killed in the crash, was buried here.
Struck by epidemic and crop failure and bypassed by the railroad, the original town of Aurora almost disappeared, but the cemetery remains in use with over 800 graves. Veterans of the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts are interred here. (1976)
The marker is located at the listed coordinates. For those without GPS aproximately 45 feet to the right of the historical marker.
Date of Death: 1897
Material: Stone
Date of Birth: Not listed
Web Site: Not listed
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