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 Santa Cruz Cemetery
N 31° 30.902 W 097° 01.314
14R E 687835 N 3488378
Texas Historical Marker at the Santa Cruz Cemetery, between Waco and Riesel on FM 1860, providing some history of this still-active burial ground, dating to 1914.
Waymark Code: WM184BY
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/27/2023
Views: 3
Marker Number: 20096
Marker Text:
First established as a burial ground for several Hispanic children who died in a 1914 epidemic, Santa Cruz Cemetery was also referred to historically as Driskell Farm Cemetery and Neale Farm Cemetery. At the time, when the children's families had no place to bury their dead, Freemason Eustolio M. Cruz asked another local farmer, Will P. Driskell, if he would allow Mexican Americans to be buried on a portion of his land. The children's graves were marked with wooden crosses which have not survived. In 1920, Driskell deeded the grounds, amounting to 2.1 acres, to the Santa Cruz Graveyard Association, now the Santa Cruz Cemetery Association.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2016
Marker is Property of the State of Texas
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