Emma Cemetery

Henry Clay Smith, buried here, was the county's first permanent settler. At his Blanco Canyon home he ran a store, raised cattle and sheep, and experimented with many kinds of crops. He took an active part in organizing Crosby County in 1886, serving as its first tax collector and later as a county commissioner. After a mild stroke in 1910 he died on May 19, 1912. His wife Elizabeth, postmistress from 1879 to 1916 and known for her hospitality to cowboys and travelers, died on June 5, 1925.

What the plaque says

Emma Cemetery Burial site of 12 Civil War veterans and County's first settlers, H. C. and Elizabeth Smith (died 1912 and 1925). Established in 1891 on land donated by J. W. Holt for the grave of his brother-in-law, Levi Jones. Land was bought by R. L. and R. R. Travis and deeded to Crosby County in 1917. 1968

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum — 10 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.
• Slaton Harvey House — 18 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.
• American Windmill Museum — 24 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.
• Silent Wings Museum — 24 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.

More markers nearby

• Emma — 1.4 mi
• Ralls Cemetery — 4.3 mi
• John Robinson Ralls — 4.3 mi
• City of Ralls — 4.9 mi