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Historical
Marker:
Augusta
Cemetery
The final resting
place of many Houston
County pioneers, this cemetery has been in continuous use since
the 1850s. It is located on four acres of land donated by Lucinda
C. Sheridan Murchison (1808-1862), widow of early property owner John
Sheridan. The earliest documented grave dates to 1854. Among those
interred here are a number of children, including one unidentified
young girl who died while traveling through the area with a wagon
train; victims of the 1918 influenza epidemic; and veterans of the
Civil War, World War I
and World War II.
A cemetery association began in 1950.
1990 |
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Augusta
Cemetery
From The
Edens-Madden Massacre by Dana
Goolsby
"Today four historical markers stand in the bend of the curb
in the Augusta Community,
at the site of the Massacre.
The bodies that were recovered from the vicious attack are buried
in the Augusta Cemetery, among many other pioneers of Houston
County. The cemetery is located down a red dirt road, CR 1680,
just 3/10 of a mile from FM 227 where the historical markers stand...
Numerous infants and young children are resting in the cemetery, along
with multiple pioneers... Other graves were never marked or have been
lost over time, but will never be forgotten. While many of those resting
in the Augusta are
older than Texas itself, there are still
Houston County
residents being laid to rest among the first pioneers of Houston
County." |
Augusta
Cemetery Historical Marker
Photo courtesy Dana
Goolsby, February 2011 |
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