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TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS

​Masonic Cemetery

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Marker Text: ​Staked Plains Lodge No. 598, A.F. & A.M., was chartered by the Grand Lodge of Texas on December 12, 1884. The members soon recognized a need for a Masonic cemetery in Big Spring. In May 1885 George Bauer (1836-1898), a member of the Lodge, donated land at this site for that purpose. Adjacent land was given later for other community graveyards, which have become known collectively as Mount Olive Cemetery.
    The earliest documented grave in the Masonic Cemetery is that of William Howerton (1846-1886). At least one gravestone bears an earlier date, but it is for a grave which was reinterred here from another location. Among those buried here are many Masons and their families, including a number of community leaders; Texas and Pacific Railway Company employees; George Bauer, original donor of the property; and veterans of World War I, World War II, and Vietnam.
​     Over the years, additional land acquisitions have enlarged the size of the cemetery to sixteen acres. A variety of sizes and styles of grave markers can be seen in the historic graveyard. (1990)
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Marker No: 3241 
Geographic: 32.271378,-101.476036
Aluminum 27 x 42 Subject Marker 
Location: from Snyder take SH 350 1 mile north to Mt. Olive Cemetery

Mt Olive Cemetery

Texas Historic Cemetery Medallion ​
Marker No. 16597
Erected 2010
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  • Alfred M. Hallmark
  • First Baptist Church of Zephyr
  • Military Road
  • Belle Plaine Cemetery
  • Community of Fodice
  • Providence Church and Cemetery
  • Packsaddle Mountain
  • No. 59 Old San Antonio Road
  • Anderson County in the Civil War
  • Smithfield Baptist Church
  • Phair Cemetery
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