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Marker Text: ​The 1850 death date of eight-year old Margaret R. Thorp, said to have died from a snakebite, documents the age of this burial ground in the community that formed around the Bluffton-Tow saltworks. An obelisk with an 1846 date is a memorial for a Morgan family member buried elsewhere. John F. Morgan, a successful fur hatmaker, arrived here in 1853. The same year William Tow and family settled Tow Valley, a long tradition of caring for this site by area families is now overseen by an association formed in the 1950s. The cemetery remains as a chronicle of he pioneers and generations that are the Tow area's heritage. (2001)

Marker No: 17419

Texas Historic Cemetery Marker

Geographic: 30.87860, -98.48060

Location: Tow, Texas