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Marker No: 16612

Texas Historical Cemetery Marker 

Geographic: ​33.09361, -97.99444

Location: 15 miles southeast of Jacksboro on 199, north on FM 1156, east on Henderson Ranch Road to intersection with Tanner Road/Joplin Cemetery Ranch Road, south on Joplin Ranch Cemetery  Ranch Road to cemetery.

Marker Text: The cemetery at this site is named for the nearby community of Joplin, and for that community’s school, which was known as Fairview. Fairview Baptist Church was also located near this site. The earliest marked burial is the 1881 grave of Jessie T. Gillis. Johnny Joplin, for whom the community of Joplin was named, was buried at the site in 1899. When the Joplin School District consolidated with the Jacksboro School District in 1947, funds from the sale of the school building were given to the newly formed Joplin Cemetery Association, which retains stewardship of the burial ground. Today, Joplin Fairview Cemetery serves as a reminder of an early Jack County community. (2009)