Winchester Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Winchester, Texas

( From Winchester, take FM 153 east about .25 mile.)

Marker installed: 1971

In use as burial ground since site gift in 1971 by Col. Nathan Thomas (1909-81), former Republic of Texas congressman, member of the legislature, civic leader.

Many Ingram Prairie pioneer families are interred her. Cemetery association was organized in 1881, with 44 members.

gravesites

The discovery of oil in 1901 near Beaumont, Texas, sparked an oil boom that transformed the state's economy and led to the rise of the modern petroleum industry.