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The oldest known grave here is that of Major Horam Watts, customs collector at Linnville, who was killed in a Comanche raid on that nearby settlement on Aug. 8, 1840. The cemetery took the name Ranger Cemetery after the burial in 1850 of Margaret Peyton Lytle, wife of James T. Lytle, who died in 1854 and was known as the "Poet" of the Texas Rangers. During the Civil War from 1861 to 1865, when an epidemic broke out, a nearby house served as a hospital, and at least 10 federal soldiers were among those buried here. Members of the five families who owned the site were also interred in Ranger Cemetery, and the last burial took place in 1941.
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Port Lavaca, Texas · United States
