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Kaufman County Poor Farm Graveyard |
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Also Known As Kaufman
County Indigent Cemetery, County Poor Farm Graveyard,
County Farm Cemetery, County Cemetery, County Graveyard, Kaufman
Mexican Graveyard & Potter's Field |
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History: This
site began as a burial place for indigent persons who lived on the county
poor farm or for those persons who died in the county and whose identity
was not known or whose family could not afford to bury them.
It is also a known burial place of prisoners from the Kaufman
County Jail, bodies of persons never identified or claimed, and for
epidemic victims in the 1800's and early 1900's.
Around the turn of the century it became a favored burial site for
Hispanics in the county, also. It
is on land that was purchased by William Love from C A Lovejoy in 1849,
pert of the Dominico Falcon
Survey. The land was inherited by William Love's son, James Love and when
he died in 1865 was inherited by his wife, Eliza Jane Stephenson Love
Weatherford Massey Thompson, who sold it to Kaufman County in 1883. |
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Location: in
the middle of a large pasture, on a rolling hill overlooking
King's Creek, 1.7 miles from the Kaufman town square, and
approximately 500 yards northeast of the highway.
Area is covered in iris and native mesquite trees.
Isolated and peaceful. On
clear days, and especially on clear nights,
the skyline of downtown Dallas can be seen, some 40 miles due west. |
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| [Note: It is estimated that there are probably more than 100 persons buried in unmarked graves in this graveyard.] |
