Fairview Cemetery
Midland, Midland County, Texas
Marker Inscription
In use by May 31, 1885, 10-acre southeast corner of this tract was accepted as gift of Midland Town Co., by commissioners of newly organized Midland County in their first meeting on Aug. 10, 1885. Veterans of the Mexican War and Civil War are among the pioneers who are buried here.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
In use by the spring of 1885, this ten-acre burial ground was accepted as a gift from the Midland Town Company at the newly organized county's first commissioners' meeting that August. Among the pioneers laid to rest here are veterans of both the Mexican War and the Civil War, men whose lives spanned the mid-century conflicts before they helped settle the West Texas plains.
Why it matters
Fairview Cemetery gathers the founding generation of Midland, linking the town's beginnings to the soldiers and pioneers who shaped 19th-century America.
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Related events
- · Mexican-American War
- · Civil War
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