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Black plaque № 27322

Bardwell, TX, United States

Elm Branch Cemetery. The rural community of Elm Branch served as a social, economic and religious center for the scattered farming families who lived in the area. The settlement contained a school, a Methodist church founded in 1886, and a cemetery. The church relocated to Bardwell in 1909, approxim

ately two miles north of Elm Branch. The earliest documented burial in Elm Branch Cemetery is that of Martha R. Tidwell, who died on November 28, 1877. Veterans dating from the Civil War to the Vietna

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