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Wooten Cemetery

Telegraph, Kimble County

Marker Text

Typical of burial sites chosen by early Texas Hill Country pioneers, Wooten Cemetery was established by April 1880 when one-year-old Cornelius Clay Jackson was buried. His headstone is the earliest grave marker in the cemetery. His mother, P. Jane Jackson, died in 1881 and is interred nearby. Other notable graves include a family group believed to be tuberculosis victims. The plot of the Allsup family is also prominent, as is the grave of Civil War veteran Simon Lee Wooten (1830-1896), for whom the cemetery is named, who came to Texas from Georgia upon the death of the Old South. (1997)

Marker Details

Address US 377
Location Description 3 mi. N of Telegraph, south of Cajac Creek on west side of US 377
Marker # 12000
Dedicated 1997
Size, Type 18" x 28"
Code cemetery
Latitude, Longitude 30.374068, -99.889725

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