Zephyr Cemetery

The unincorporated town of Zephyr, on land granted to early settlers Benjamin Head and Felix Wardziski, was established in the 1860s. As the settlement grew, a school opened in the 1870s, churches and businesses were established, and mail arrived weekly from Brownwood. This cemetery has served Zephyr and the surrounding area since the 1870s. Its earliest known burials are three Staggs children who died in 1878 and 1879, and another early grave is that of Ann Catherine Sewell Ward (1843-1879). The first official deed to cemetery property was made in 1899, although the burial ground was already in use, and later land acquisitions expanded it to more than seven acres. Those buried here include thirty-three victims of the devastating tornado of May 29, 1909, which almost completely destroyed the town, and veterans of six wars: the Mexican War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. The cemetery remains a reminder of the pioneer spirit of the area's early settlers.

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