Historical Marker

Edgewood Cemetery

Historical marker location:
Lancaster, Texas
( just south of intersection of Nokomis and Beltline Rds. on Nokomis, Lancaster)
Marker installed: 1974

Earliest grave here is that of Lizzie Richardson, a pioneer child who died in the summer of 1845. The site for the cemetery was chosen by Roderick Rawlins, one of the area's first settlers; he was buried here in 1848. Among the graves in the older section is that of James Lemon, veteran of the American Revolution, who died on July 4, 1858. The land was not officially set aside as a cemetery until it was acquired from Thomas McKee Ellis in 1877. Since then the Lancaster Cemetery Association has bought additional land and currently maintains over 1500 graves.

Marker Donor: Lancaster Historical Society.