josephusminimus
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The Texas Historical Commission says it of 'historical' cemeteries, but they're all historical to one degree or another.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thc.state.tx.us/cemeteries/cemdefault.shtml">http://www.thc.state.tx.us/cemeteries/cemdefault.shtml</a><br /><br /><em><em>
<br /><br /></em>Once a person becomes addicted to perusing cemeteries in a community the difficulty's getting out of them and getting back on the road. They'll snag you, browsing around in there, finding the line of 1918 flu victims, reading the remarks people had put on their own stones hoping to be remembered for [and weren't], reading what those who survived them had to say [sometimes surprising surprising surprising].<br /><br /><em>Cemeteries are like open history books whose pages are tablets of stone. Historians consult cemetery records to confirm past events. Sometimes there is no other recorded information about an area except what can be found in cemeteries. Each one provides clues about the people who settled an area.</em></em></em><p align="left"><em>Cemeteries tell us about the ethnic background of people, their occupations, how long they lived and, sometimes, what caused their deaths. They provide us with insights into cultural practices and beliefs. Some monuments are simple — a slab of wood or a carved piece of concrete with a name and dates scratched in. Others are elaborate sculptures</em><br /><br /><em>Of the approximately 50,000 historic cemeteries in Texas, the precise location of only a small portion has been recorded. This information is scattered in various sources and is not complete.</em><br /><br /></p><em>