Even a casual visitor should read the NH Laws/RSAs on Cemeteries. The legal details: New Hampshire has numerous laws governing old cemeteries. Most recently, thanks to a generous legacy, we offer grants to help defray the costs of graveyard preservation. We conduct workshops during the warmer months to educate others on how they can best preserve their local graveyards. We publish a newsletter, New Hampshire Old Graveyard News, twice anually that keeps members up to date with the latest activities of our organization.
We meet twice each year at various locations around the state to learn what others are doing to preserve their burial sites. What we do: We seek to promote the knowledge of New Hampshire history by bringing together people interested in old graveyards and strive to foster an interest in the discovery, maintenance, records preservation and cataloging of graveyards and cemeteries.
These burial places are an integral part of our history and an invaluable resource for genealogists, historians and scholars of New Hampshire's and New England's cultural history. Our mission is to discover, map, maintain, record and preserve our New Hampshire graveyards before they are irretrievably lost.
Who we are: The New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association is a non-profit organization composed of genealogists, historians, cemetery officials and other interested individuals dedicated to preserving the historical graveyards of New Hampshire. For specific location see Deed Records of Dallas County, Volume E, Pages 549-550 and Volume 641,, Cemetery Number DL-C231, Dallas County, Texas.Welcome to the New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association, an organization dedicated to the preservation of our state's heritage as represented by its historic graveyards and cemeteries. The cemetery is located in the vicinity of N. The graveyard was reconsecrated in a blessing ceremony October 7, 2011, and the Texas Historical Commission marker was officially placed on the site April 29, 2012, the 156th anniversary of the tornado.
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Hart, his wife and child, John Berry, his wife and child, John Dickson, Martha Lamar Allen and an unnamed Negro woman.Īs the land was deeded a free and public graveyard in 1856, it is possible that others were buried there although no evidence or record of burials after the tornado are known to exist.Īpplication for designation as an Historic Texas Cemetery, prepared by Cedar Hill resident Wanda Stanton Pitt, was granted by the Texas Historical Commission in 2006. Local newspaper accounts (PDF) report that nine victims of the tornado were buried on Robert Crawford's land northeast of where the church had stood. Crawford owned land adjacent to the church site which was destroyed by the tornado and donated four acres to church trustees to be designated as a free and indiscriminate public graveyard.
Here is a news link to the CBS coverage of the graveyard.Īmong the survivors was Robert Crawford, teacher and pastor of Cedar Mountain Church, believed to be the first congregation in the area. With a resolute pioneer spirit still evident today, survivors went about the daunting task of restoring order to their shattered community. On Tuesday, April 29, 1856, the burgeoning settlement of Cedar Hill was struck by a violent tornado that claimed at least nine lives, damaged property, killed livestock and reportedly left only two structures standing.
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