Cone Cemetery

When the first burial was made here in 1897, Crosby County was still cattle country. Open range lasted until the mid-1880s, when barbed wire came and small ranchers and farmers began competing for land, and by 1890 the county had 345 people. Large outfits such as the St. Louis Cattle Company, the Two-Buckle Ranch and, from 1901, the C. B. Livestock Company dominated into the twentieth century. The county counted 30,618 cattle in 1900 and grew only 103 acres of cotton; as late as 1910 it had just 1,765 residents.

What the plaque says

Cone Cemetery Founded with burial, April 17,1897, of W. G. English, Father of J. P. and E. M. English; on land patented by the state to J. P. English, October 9, 1897. Title was adopted after post office was named in 1903 for rancher Stanton J. Cone. Cemetery was bought by Judge Pink L. Parrish for Crosby County, May 8, 1910. 1971

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum — 14 mi
  Crosbyton's museum of Blanco Canyon, built in 1958 as a copy of Hank Smith's Rock House, and the place to learn the canyon's 1871 fight between Mackenzie's cavalry and Quanah's Quahadi Comanche.
• Silent Wings Museum — 25 mi
  The museum of the American combat glider pilots of World War II, in Lubbock's old airport terminal on the field where most of them earned their wings.
• American Windmill Museum — 27 mi
  Lubbock's park of restored water-pumping windmills and early wind chargers, more than 70 of them turning outdoors and the rare ones under roof, with a megawatt-era turbine overhead.
• Slaton Harvey House — 27 mi
  A 1912 Santa Fe Harvey House in the railroad town of Slaton, restored as a museum, event hall and five-room inn overlooking a working BNSF yard.

More markers nearby

• Village of Cone — 2.0 mi
• Farmer Community — 2.2 mi
• Floyd County — 7.5 mi
• The Battle of Blanco Canyon — 7.5 mi