Fairview Cemetery

Dawson Co. Cemeteries of TX

Submitted by Chuck Crowson

The Fairview Cemetery, is located just off the LaMesa-Welch Highway about .4 miles west on FM 1066, it is to the left of the road.  It has no fence or gate, just two metal post that at one time was the entrance.  There are only 26 headstones in the Cemetery, however there are several spaces the might have had people buried there.  The latest was in the 60's.  I looks like that the farm on the west side of the cemetery has encroached on the boundary, however the only way to make certain is to excavate that side.  There is every indication that the graves on the west side have been covered with blown sand from the adjacent field 

There doesn’t appear to be any association that of oversees the cemetery. One family, the Bingham's, moved George Robert Bingham Jr. to the Loop Cemetery.  I'm sure that other families have done the same thing.  

            Beside Mabel Frances Slaughter's grave,  there are four steel fence posts that  appear to outline a grave, no other markings.