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Submitted: 2/14/18 • Approved: 2/12/21 • Last Updated: 2/15/21 • R153657-G0-S3
Edwards Cemetery
Texas Historical Markers
Longview, TX, USA
Texas State
Historical Marker
This site was used as a graveyard for settlers of this area as early as the mid-1850s. The earliest recorded burial here was that of the infant Josephine Rucker in 1855. The cemetery is named for James William Cartwright Edwards (1836-1913), who with his parents John King and Elizabeth Billings Edwards, moved to Texas from Tennessee about 1850. James acquired 1.6 acres, which included this graveyard, for use as a family cemetery in 1912. His daughter, Margie, fenced a part of the cemetery in 1956 and set up a trust fund for its upkeep before her death in 1962.
Photo courtesy of Jane Stacy Eubanks
Contributed on 2/14/18 by MryAl8
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