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Shafter, Presidio Co., Cemeteries of Texas
Submitted by Carl C. Williams
Location: East side of Town, Shafter.
This is a complete listing it is a small cemetery. On the Cemetery land is a memorial to the families buried here as well as to the community of Shafter, Texas, once a bustling Mining-town now a ghost town. The cemetery is active and well cared for. Carl C. Williams
George H. Brooks (1833-1911) served in a California volunteer unit during the Civil War before settling in Presidio County in the 1860s. In 1878 he married Mexican native Ygnacia Reza. This cemetery began with the burial of their son, Albion E. Brooks, in 1904. George and Ygnacia Brooks (d. 1948) and other members of the Brooks family, including former Texas Ranger and deputy sheriff Robert Speed (1878-1940), are buried here. Also interred here are friends and relatives of the Brooks' in the Fuentes and Gonzales families. The cemetery remains active and is maintained by the Shaffer community. Sesquicentennial of Texas Statehood 1845-1995.
| LAST NAME | FIRST NAME | DOB | DOD | MARRIAGE | INSCRIPTIONS |
| FUENTEZ SIDE | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fuentes | Ruben P. | 1902 | 1967 | - | - |
| Fuentes | Mariano | 1879 | 1953 | - | Father |
| Fuentes | Gregoria | 1882 | 1961 | - | Mother |
| Fuentes | Nicholas Ruben | 1928 | 1999 | 4/17/1955 | - |
| Fuentes | Margarita W. | 1934 | - | 4/17/1955 | - |
| Fuentes | Adalberto R. | 4/10/1909 | 4/21/1995 | - | - |
| Fuentes | Paula G. | 10/19/1917 | 8/24/2003 | - | - |
| Herrera | Frederico | 1902 | 1974 | - | - |
| Herrera | Elfida F. | 12/7/1906 | 2/12/2000 | - | - |
| Gonzalez | Irineo | 1887 | 1954 | - | - |
| Gonzalez | Micaela D. | 1891 | 1973 | - | - |
| Fuentes | Porfirio | 1908 | 1995 | - | - |
| Fuentes | Amparo M. | 1912 | - | - | - |
| Unmarked | - | - | - | - | - |
| Unmarked | - | - | - | - | - |
| Unmarked | - | - | - | - | - |
| - | - | - | - | - | |
| BROOKS SIDE | - | - | - | - | - |
| Speed | Robert E. | 1878 | 1940 | - | DAD |
| Speed | Ida | 1888 | 1925 | - | MOM |
| Brooks | Auroram | 1893 | 1927 | - | - |
| Brooks | George H. | - | - | - | 1st Sgt Co. H. 1 Cal. Inf |
| Brooks | Ignacia Reza | 1862 | 1948 | - | Mother |
| Brooks | George F. | 1880 | 1909 | - | - |
| Brooks | Albion E. | 1884 | 1904 | - | - |
| Brooks | Delfina M. | 1908 | 1963 | - | Mother |
| Unmarked | - | - | - | - | - |
| Unmarked | - | - | - | - | - |