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Alice Cemetery
This burial ground
has served Alice-area
residents for more than 100 years, and the story of its genesis and
ongoing use involves many individuals in the community’s history.
By the late 1880s, Frederic B. Nayer lived in this area, then part
of Nueces County.
The Collins community had about 2,000 residents by 1891, but the San
Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad Co. built through the area three miles
west of the town to intersect the Texas Mexican Railway. Nayer helped
sell lots at the rail intersection for the new townsite that would
become Alice, and in 1903, he donated the land for the city burial
ground, initially called Alice Fraternal Cemetery. In 1925, the Alice
Cemetery Association formed and the name of the burial ground changed.
Martha Fawcus served as the association’s first president. Under her
leadership in 1952, members planted 100 oak trees that more than 50
years later remained a defining feature of the site. Individuals buried
at the cemetery include prominent citizens of Alice’s
past, military veterans, Texas Rangers and generations of community
residents.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2004 |
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