Crosbyton Cemetery

The ranch that gave this ground was being turned into farms when the cemetery began. The C. B. Livestock Company had bought 90,000 acres from the Kentucky Cattle Company in 1902, and from about 1907 to 1915 it sold land as a great cotton country. It surveyed the Crosbyton townsite in January 1908, opened the town and sold lots in February, held another sale that June, and saw a post office open in July with Julian M. Bassett as postmaster. By 1912 the company also ran a 10,000-acre demonstration farm under Judge L. Gough.

What the plaque says

Crosbyton Cemetery Established in 1909, this cemetery was once part of a 90,000-acre ranch operated by the C. B. Livestock Company. Julian Bassett, part owner of the company and donor of the Crosbyton townsite, also gave the land for this burial ground when James Boggs, a cowboy on the ranch, was ill and was thought to be dying. The first burial was that of 18-month-old Willie Oliver. Others interred here include Julian Bassett and many other early settlers who were influential in the development of the area. The Crosbyton Cemetery is a reminder of the region's pioneer heritage. 1984

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum — 1.6 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.
• Spur-Dickens County Museum — 24 mi
  Dickens County's museum on the main block of Spur, a town born on November 1, 1909, when the first train reached the land a New York syndicate was selling off from the Spur Ranch.
• Slaton Harvey House — 29 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.
• Motley County Historical Museum — 33 mi
  Matador's museum in the 1928 Traweek Hospital, in the county seat a Scottish-owned ranch created by having its cowboys open one-day businesses to pass a state rule.

More markers nearby

• Julian M. Bassett — steps away
• Lamar Family — steps away
• Crosby County — 1.6 mi
• Crosbyton — 1.7 mi