Ralls Cemetery

The town whose founder lies here boomed again after the Depression. Irrigation spread in the 1940s and a building boom began late in the decade; by 1951 Ralls had more than 100 businesses. Over the years districts including Owens, League Four, Canyon Valley, Fairview, New Home and Farmer joined Ralls schools. Governor Preston Smith dedicated the Ralls Historical Museum on March 6, 1970, in John R. Ralls's old bank building, with thousands of items and fifteen period rooms. In 1980 Ralls was the largest town in Crosby County, with 2,422 people.

What the plaque says

Ralls Cemetery The original five acre tract of land for this burial grund was purchased from the C.B. Livestock Co. on September 7, 1915, four years after the town of Ralls was founded. The cemetery was first used for the interment of W.H. Shell (d. 1915). The Georgia marble Bible, erected in 1963 by the Ralls Garden Club, is one of many beautification projects by local organizations, including the Lions Club and Cemetery Association. Prominent community members are buried here, including John R. Ralls, town founder. Graves also include those of veterans of several wars. 1985

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum — 9.4 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 — 21 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.
• 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 — 25 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.

More markers nearby

• John Robinson Ralls — steps away
• City of Ralls — 1.1 mi
• Emma — 3.8 mi
• Emma Cemetery — 4.3 mi