Bullock Cemetery
Ranger vicinity, Eastland County, Texas
Marker Inscription
When baby Georgia A. Barnes was interred on William Nolen's land in 1878, there was a one-room schoolhouse on this site. A three-year-old girl was buried here in 1884, and in 1886 William Nolen donated two of his 160 acres for the formal establishment of a school and cemetery for the area later known as the Bullock community. In 1918 the cemetery and school property were leased for drilling, but the resulting well did not produce. More land was donated as needed, including the site of the old oil well. The Bullock Cemetery Association was formed in the 1960s. Bullock Cemetery continues to serve the area. (1998)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
When infant Georgia A. Barnes was buried on William Nolen's land in 1878, a one-room schoolhouse already stood on the site. In 1886 Nolen donated two of his 160 acres to formally establish a school and cemetery for the settlement that became the Bullock community. The grounds were even leased for oil drilling in 1918, though the well came up dry. A cemetery association formed in the 1960s, and the burial ground still serves the area.
Why it matters
Bullock Cemetery shows how a single frontier landowner's gift of land seeded the school and burial ground that gave a rural Texas community its identity.
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Related people
- · William Nolen
- · Georgia A. Barnes
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