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Black Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery (Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery)

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1870s–present. County Rd. 3348, approximately 3 miles southwest of Brackettville

A cemetery for the Seminole Scouts and their families, including the graves of four who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor, is about a mile from the Fort Clark site. The cemetery is owned and operated by a nonprofit group of descendants of the Seminole Scouts. Graves at the site vary widely. Some have white marble military headstones that were installed with government support in 1940, while others feature locally made crosses or sculptures, and still others are simple mounds of dirt with pressed-metal markers.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Fort Clark
Kinney County Courthouse
Kinney County Heritage Museum (Filippone Building)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Black Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery (Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery)", [Brackettville, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EL9.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 426-426.

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