Waller Cemetery
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Marker No: 1998
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Geographic: 30.44970, -95.83890
Location: 3 miles south of Richards on Fm 1486; 2.1 miles west on CR 214/212 to CR 210; 1.2 miles south on CR 210
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Marker Text: According to oral history, Alexander Waller was the first person to be buried at this site. He died shortly after helping his father choose the family burial ground on their land purchased in 1872. John Waller, a veteran of the 15th Texas Cavalry, and his wife Frances (Dyer), had eleven children, several of whom are buried in this cemetery. Other Confederate veterans are interred here: Thomas Cothran, Jesse Long, and Oliver Smoot. Many more Sulphur Branch community families rest here, including two African-American families originally buried outside the main cemetery. Waller Cemetery continues to serve descendants of the early residents of Sulphur Branch. (1998)
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