Sweetwater Cemetery

The oldest marked grave in this public burial ground is that of an infant, Purl Ray Scott, who died in 1880, one year before the founding of the town of Sweetwater on the Texas and Pacific Railroad. Handcrafted tombstones and wrought iron fences are prominent features of the graveyard. It contains the burial sites of pioneers, immigrants, community leaders, and Civil War veterans, and it reflects the hardships of pioneer life and the history of the community.

Sweetwater, Texas · United States