Garden City Cemetery

Garden City Cemetery (HM2IKM)

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N 31° 50.366', W 101° 29.656'

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The Garden City community began using this burial ground as early as 1886. That year, a child of county commissioner Sullivan Hill and his wife, Lucy, was buried here. Four years later, a sibling was buried at the same spot; the two graves share a single stone.

The Hill family plot, where Sullivan and Lucy are also buried, is one of many in the cemetery representing the early area settlers. Other early family names found throughout the burial ground are Hanson, Gooch and Cox. Family plots are typically bordered by concrete curbing. Most gravestones are vertical, especially in the older section of the cemetery, which is indicated by the remaining decorative iron fencing. Some of the individual family plots also include original fencing.

In 1914, John Etheridge and Perneice Gore Lawler formally designated the original one-acre tract as a cemetery. Today, the county maintains the burial ground, to which three acres were later added. As the final resting place of many of the early settlers and their descendants, the cemetery is a significant link to the community's history.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2003
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HM NumberHM2IKM
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Year Placed2003
Placed ByTexas Historical Commission
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Date Added Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 at 8:01am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)14R E 263960 N 3525349
Decimal Degrees31.83943333, -101.49426667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 31° 50.366', W 101° 29.656'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds31° 50' 21.96" N, 101° 29' 39.36" W
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