Details for Brushwood Cemetery

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5215000546

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Marker Number 546
Atlas Number 5215000546
Marker Title Brushwood Cemetery
Index Entry Brushwood Cemetery
Address 1701 E. Richardson Rd.
City Edinburg
County Hidalgo
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 585705
UTM Northing 2909817
Subject Codes cemetery; Spanish immigrants/immigration; German immigrants/immigration; Irish immigrants/immigration
Marker Year 1992
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location Brushwood Cemetery, N side between I-69C and N. M Rd.
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Text Brushwood Cemetery was established as a municipal burial ground for the town of Chapin (now Edinburg) in 1913, five years after the town's founding. The earliest known burial here was that of Antonia Hernandez de Ramos, who died in 1913. Older graves dating to 1898 were relocated here from El Granjeno Cemetery near the town of Mission. More than 1,000 graves are located here. Tombstones bear Anglo, Spanish, German, and Irish surnames and document the diversity of peoples that helped build Edinburg and other communities in the vicinity. (1992)

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