Kaufman County Indigent Cemetery, Kaufman, TX and George McCorkin black plaque

Kaufman, TX, United States

Kaufman County Indigent Cemetery. This burial ground is part of 600 acres purchased for use as a poor farm operated by Kaufman County beginning in 1883. It is the final resting place for some of Kaufman County's citizens who were poor farm residents, county jail inmates, paupers, transients and othe

r indigents. It is believed that anonymous victims of an 1871 typhoid fever epidemic were the first to be interred at this site, but the earliest marked grave is that of poor farm inmate George McCork

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