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Benton City Cemetery was the first public cemetery in this community, which was famous in its early days for its outstanding school, aggressive businesses, and newspaper, the Benton City "Era." The site was given by James M. Jones, a farmer, livestock raiser, and leading citizen whose rock house stood nearby. Jones and his family moved here in 1869, when Atascosa County, with Amphion as the county seat, was a frontier region of south Texas. Buried here are pioneers and veterans of Indian warfare, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and other conflicts.
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