Add cemetery photos

Pauper

Orange, Orange County, Texas, USA – *No GPS coordinates

About

  • No location information available
    Add Location

  • Cemetery ID:

Members have Contributed

Advertisement

Photos

No additional photos.

Add Photos
Following is excerpt from: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/orange/cemeteries/pauper.txt

Pauper Cemetery (Information taken from Las Sabinas magazine, vol. 17, 1991, book 4, from Charlotte Chiasson.)

A two acre pauper cemetery for Orange County has been located on Old Timers Road in Precint 2 for about the past 75 years. Little is known by county officials about the exact number of paupers buried there, since records have only been kept since 1954 by the county welfare department.

Morris Collier, former Precinct 2 commissioner, said he didn't know of the pauper's cemetery until he became the commissioner. County commissioners records show that a man in the 1800s was given the use of a five to ten acre tract of land to farm in trade for his maintaining the pauper cemetery. According to owner of the Fuller Funeral Home, the plot of land designated for the pauper cemetery was made a legal cemetery between 1930 and 1934.

Maurice Smith, a 65 year old retired millwright construction worker who maintained the cemetery grounds for 21 years,
said the cemetery has been on Old Timers Road at least 75 years. Smith's father in law, Ben Henry, had told him several times that the cemetery was there when he was a young man. "My father in law was born and raised here on the Sabine River, and he died in the 1890's" Smith said.








Following is excerpt from: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/orange/cemeteries/pauper.txt

Pauper Cemetery (Information taken from Las Sabinas magazine, vol. 17, 1991, book 4, from Charlotte Chiasson.)

A two acre pauper cemetery for Orange County has been located on Old Timers Road in Precint 2 for about the past 75 years. Little is known by county officials about the exact number of paupers buried there, since records have only been kept since 1954 by the county welfare department.

Morris Collier, former Precinct 2 commissioner, said he didn't know of the pauper's cemetery until he became the commissioner. County commissioners records show that a man in the 1800s was given the use of a five to ten acre tract of land to farm in trade for his maintaining the pauper cemetery. According to owner of the Fuller Funeral Home, the plot of land designated for the pauper cemetery was made a legal cemetery between 1930 and 1934.

Maurice Smith, a 65 year old retired millwright construction worker who maintained the cemetery grounds for 21 years,
said the cemetery has been on Old Timers Road at least 75 years. Smith's father in law, Ben Henry, had told him several times that the cemetery was there when he was a young man. "My father in law was born and raised here on the Sabine River, and he died in the 1890's" Smith said.








Nearby cemeteries

Claybar Hillcrest Memorial Gardens

Orange, Orange County, Texas, USA

  • 7k+
  • 69%
  • 20%
0 mi
Evergreen Cemetery

Orange, Orange County, Texas, USA

  • 6k+
  • 82%
  • 0%
0 mi
Saint Marys Cemetery

Orange, Orange County, Texas, USA

  • 2k+
  • 84%
  • 1%
0 mi
Autumn Oaks Memorial Park

Orange, Orange County, Texas, USA

  • 2k+
  • 80%
  • 1%
0 mi
  • Added: 24 Aug 2017
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2649588