Washita Cemetery

Washita Cemetery is the primary remaining historic evidence of the Washita community. Anglo pioneers began settling the area in the late 1870s and early 1880s, and as the community grew, its members established a school, church, and post office. After the 1912 death of Winifred Thompson, infant daughter of Roy Thompson, the community needed a cemetery, and Dr. M.L. Caldwell donated one acre in the southeast corner of his property for that purpose. Since 1912, prominent citizens of Washita and surrounding communities have been buried there, and its graves preserve a record of the families who first settled the Washita community.

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