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Old Mexican Graveyard

4 miles East of Rosser Community
Kaufman County Texas

History:  According to local historian, Irene Lowry Griffin, who has lived in the area for more than 80 years, the site was used predominately for burials of local Hispanics; however, there are a few Caucasian burials, as well as some Chinese men who died from an epidemic while working on the Texas-Midland railroad in the 1890's.  According to Irene Griffin, there were at least 30 graves with markers on the site when she last visited there in the 1ate 1960's.

There is only one remaining tombstone on the site and it is enclosed by an old iron fence:

Grave stone in Old Mexican Cemetery
The only Tombstone remaining at the Old Mexican Graveyard near Rosser in 1999.

The stone reads:
Antonio Beltran    1862 - 1927

There are several metal temporary grave markers strewn across the area - all are rusty and unreadable except:

Jose Joaquin Iglesiadied Nov 23 1936age unknownDees Funeral Home-Kaufman
Baby boy Gonzalezborn & died Dec 11, 1935 Keever Funeral Home  Ennis TX

Enumerated by Kathey Kelley Hunt & Don Burt - Feb 17, 1999



New Information added October 2000

Alavedo, Caslo
son of M & Juana Alavedo
Nov 30, 1919 - Oct 29, 1930
Death Record Book 4, pg 40




This page was created on May 13, 1999.
Photo of the only remaining stone added November 11, 2005.
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Coordinator of the Kaufman County, TXGenWeb Project site
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