Fairview Cemetery

Fairview Cemetery began with the burial of five-month-old Victor Nordhem in February 1900 on land bought by Alison J. Adams for an individual burial plot. In 1908, Adams deeded additional acreage to the Fairview Cemetery Association. Decoration Day, later Memorial Day, brought grave decoration, music, speeches, and activities. More than 1200 marked and unmarked burials have been recorded, and features include markers made of concrete, marble, granite, and cypress wood. Dozens of military veterans are interred here, along with settlers and descendants from the Japanese colony begun at Webster in 1903.

League City, Texas · United States