Content Cemetery
Crews, Runnels County, Texas
Marker Inscription
(with twelve 19th century graves - one unidentified) Opened 1883 with burial of a cowboy, James Hanna. Confederate veteran John A. Hanna, of Co. A, 8th regt., Texas Cavalry, Army of Tennessee, was buried here 1889. Their sister Amanda, her husband John Hardegree, and two children, and three of John A. Hanna's infant grandchildren also rest here. (1972)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Tucked into the West Texas ranch country of Runnels County, Content Cemetery opened in 1883 with the burial of a cowboy named James Hanna, a fitting first for a landscape then given over to cattle and open range. Among those who followed was his kinsman John A. Hanna, a Confederate veteran of the 8th Texas Cavalry in the Army of Tennessee, laid to rest in 1889 alongside siblings, in-laws, and infant grandchildren. The dozen 19th-century graves gather a single frontier family across a generation of hard living.
Why it matters
Small family burial grounds like this one preserve the intimate human record of how ordinary settlers, cowboys, and Civil War veterans put down roots in the late-19th-century Texas frontier.
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Related people
- · James Hanna
- · John A. Hanna
- · Amanda Hardegree
- · John Hardegree
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