Site of
​Berachah Home and Cemetery

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Marker No: 4730

18 x 28 Aluminum Subject Marker 

Geographic: ​32° 43.717′ N, 97° 7.043′ W

Marker Text: ​The Berachah Rescue Society was organized at Waco in 1894 by the Rev. J. T. Upchurch (b. 1870) for the protection of homeless girls and unwed mothers. Nine years later he opened the Berachah Industrial Home at this site. Ten buildings were located here, including a print shop for publication of the "Purity Journal". The cemetery, which contains more than eighty graves, was first used in 1904 for the burial of Eunice Williams, one of the residents. The home closed in 1935, but the site was used until 1942 as an orphanage run by Upchurch's daughter Allie Mae and her husband Frank Wiese. (1981)

Location: ​Doug Russell Park on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington.