Rockport Cemetery
Rockport, Aransas County, Texas
Marker Inscription
This cemetery has served the citizens of Rockport and Fulton for over a century. The oldest marked grave is that of Emma Fulton (d. 1876), granddaughter of George Ware Fulton, who was instrumental in the development of the area and was interred in the cemetery in 1893. A large number of burials took place here in 1918, the year of a devastating influenza epidemic. The cemetery contains the graves of veterans of the Texas Revolution, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. The Rockport Cemetery Association maintains the historic graveyard. (1988)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
For more than a century this cemetery has served the coastal towns of Rockport and Fulton, its oldest marked grave that of young Emma Fulton, granddaughter of area developer George Ware Fulton, who was buried here in 1893. A wave of burials in 1918 records the toll of the great influenza epidemic. Among its graves lie veterans of conflicts from the Texas Revolution through Vietnam.
Why it matters
The cemetery is a layered record of a Texas coastal community—its founding families, the 1918 pandemic, and generations of veterans across nearly every American war.
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Related people
- · Emma Fulton
- · George Ware Fulton
Related events
- · 1918 influenza epidemic
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