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Claude Cemetery
From Claude, Hwy 287 west to County Road 14. Turn right (north).
Cemetery is on the right a short distance after the double curve.
Lat 35.132550
Lon -101.380445
Lat 35.132550
Lon -101.380445
Marker Text:
Claude Cemetery
(Established 1890)
Dan Cavanagh settled here in 1885 and bought this land in
1888. In 1890 he gave a grave site for railroad worker Neal DeBerry. Settler
C.C. Bates was buried in 1890, and early burials from the Fort Worth & Denver
Railroad right-of-way were later moved here. James and Harriet Grimes deeded the
cemetery land to the public in 1905. A cemetery association was organized in
1912, and perpetual care began in 1936 with a $10,000 gift from Jim Hill. Also
interred here are veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish American War, World
Wars I and II, Korea, and Vietnam. (1973, 1990)