Childress Cemetery
Childress, Childress County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Childress Cemetery Established 1887 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2008
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Established in 1887, Childress Cemetery took shape just as the town and county were being organized on the newly opened plains of the Texas Panhandle. Its founding coincided with the arrival of railroads and settlers who transformed this open ranching country into farming and market communities in the late nineteenth century. The state's designation of it as a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2008 recognizes it as a lasting record of those first residents.
Why it matters
As the resting place of Childress's founding generation, the cemetery documents the swift settlement of the Panhandle frontier in the closing years of the nineteenth century.
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