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Saturn Cemetery, Waelder, TX, Hugh McMillan, Elizabeth McMillan, and Martha McMillan Dubose black plaque

Waelder, TX, United States

Saturn Cemetery. A community began to develop near this site during the 1870s and was known by several names, including Possum Trot, Prickly Pear, and Ettowa before a post office was established under the name Saturn in 1902. Hugh and Elizabeth (Burleson) McMillan sold two acres at this site to the

Good Hope Primitive Baptist Church for a cemetery in 1882. The site was already the resting place of their daughter Martha McMillan Dubose, who died in 1880. The burial ground continued to be used by

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