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Brewster County, Texas
Marathon Cemetery
Need Photos and Interments of this Cemetery
According to Albert Chambers, an early resident of Marathon, the first people who were buried in Marathon were six Chinese railroad workers. They were buried on the north side of what later became the Albert Chambers home. This burial site was slightly to the southeast of the Old Chambers Hotel, a local historical building. Mrs. Fannie Harris, a long-time Marathon resident, related that the next burials were south of the old George Harris home in Beakley Draw known as the Village Green. In 1905 a flood displaced many of the graves. Mr. Guy Combs and Mr. W.J. McIntyre donated land south of town for an Anglo cemetery as well as land for a Mexican cemetry. Additional land was donated by the Combs family in 1951. Mr. Lewis Harmon, another early Marathon resident, has stated that the first burial in the new cemetery was a Mr. Quick, although no record of his death has been located. The rock work for the entrance gate and four corner posts was done by L.Cordova in 1933. The plaque on one of the entrance posts was donated by Laura & Thomas B. Henderson. It reads as follows:
IN MENORY OF
THE DONORS OF THIS LAND
Guy S.
Combs
Nora C. McGehee
Lila C.
Matthews
W.J. McIntyre
1902 Marathon Cemetery
Ass'n 1961
A recent survey of the Anglo cemetery shows that there are 587 marked graves and approximately 127 unmarked and lost graves. Approximately 12 graves remain in the civilian cemetery at Fort Pena Colorado, and only one grave remains in the military cemetery. Several of the graves from these two cemeteries have been moved elsewhere. Many unknown graves are located on area ranches. No survey has been made of the Mexican cemetery.
Information in Magenta is from the Texas Death Certificates, furnished by Peggy Trammell Allen, July 2009
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Allen, David M. |
Feb. 14, 1911 |
Apr. 24, 1997 |
TXGenWeb Project USGenWeb Project
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