Fletcher Cemetery

The plaque lists five communities this cemetery served. Two of them have Handbook entries. Golinda, on the Falls County line, was named for Ignacio Galindo, a priest who received an eleven-league grant in 1833. Its settlers preferred high ground to the bottomlands, fearing malaria and typhoid, and stagecoaches between Marlin and Waco stopped there. Rosenthal, to the south, is said to have been named in 1880 when a Waco store owner offered a family a free barrel of apples if they named their town after him. Its post office closed in 1907.

What the plaque says

Fletcher Cemetery This cemetery began with the 1868 burial of early settler Sample Carrigan, who is interred in an unmarked grave. the first marked burial site is that of Clinton A. Mahoney (1860-1868). The graveyard was used chiefly by the Carrigan, Needham, and Harris families until Catherine Carrigan Fletcher set aside three acres as a public cemetery in 1873. The burial Cemetery in 1873. The burial ground served residents of several McLennan and Falls County communities, including Golinda, Mooreville, Robinson, Rosenthal, and Satin. A number of Civil War veterans are buried here. (1985)

Where it stands

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