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Wallis Cemetery
History
Also known as the Protestant Cemetery, this burial ground has served the Wallis community and surrounding area since the 1890s. The earliest settlers in the area were William and Lydia Ann (English) Guyler, Kentucky natives who arrived here in 1859. William Guyler built a grist mill, cotton gin, and saw mill in the community then known as Bovine Bend, and he also served as the settlement's postmaster. In 1880, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway constructed a spur through the area. Guyler sold his land to the railroad company and moved his residence and trading post to the new town, named Wallis Station after railroad chief engineer and vice president Joseph Edmund Wallis. The community was later renamed Wallis. In 1895, N.P. Ward sold four acres of land for cemetery use. The oldest known burial in Wallis Cemetery is Virginia Pennington, who died in 1892. Those buried here include the Guylers and the Rev. Theo Kubricht, M.D., a local physician and minister of Wallis Presbyterian Church, as well as community leaders, farmers, ranchers, railroad workers, merchants, teachers, and veterans of conflicts dating to the Civil War. Features of the cemetery include interior fencing and obelisks. The Wallis Cemetery Association, formed when the burial ground was established, continues to maintain the property, which remains a reminder of the struggles, successes, and contributions of the area's early pioneers.
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