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| Keywords: Aurora cemetery plaque.jpg plaque at the cemetery of Aurora Texas Transferred from http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User Jcornelius using http //tools wikimedia de/~magnus/commonshelper php CommonsHelper 2007-09-05 Original uploader was Sf46 at http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia Sf46 en Text transcription The text transcription that follow has been made using a photography of the plaque It might have incorrect transcriptions though ---- Aurora Cemetery The oldest known graves here dating from as early as the 1860s are those of the Randall and Rowlett families Einis Dudley Beauchamp 1825 “1893 a confederate veteran from Mississippi donated the 3-acre site to the newly-formed Aurora lodge No 479 A F G A M in 1877 for many years this community burial ground was known as masonic cemetery Beauchamp his wife Caroline 18XX “1893 and others in their family are buried here An epidemic which struck the village in 1891 added hundreds of graves to the plot Called spotted fever by the settlers the disease is now thought to have been a form of meningitis Locate in Aurora cemetery is the gravestone of the infant Nellie Burris 1891 “1893 whit its often-quoted epitaph As I was so soon done I don't know why I was begun This site is also well-known because of the legend that a spaceship crashed nearby in 1897 and the pilot killed in the crash was buried here Struck by epidemic and crop failure and bypassed by the railroad the original town of Aurora almost disappeared but the cemetery remains in use with over 800 graves Veterans of the civil war World Wars I and II And the Korean and Vietnam conflicts are interred here 1976 ---- original upload log page en wikipedia Aurora3 JPG 2007-09-05 02 53 Sf46 1000×750×8 315251 bytes <nowiki>Texas Historical marker listing incident of alien spacecraft crashing there in 1897</nowiki> Aurora Texas Cemeteries in Texas State historical markers in Texas Rickettsioses | ||||
