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Ringgold Cemetery – Ringgold, Texas

Ringgold Cemetery, Ringgold Texas

Ringgold Cemetery, Ringgold Texas
Ringgold Cemetery, Ringgold Texas

Ringgold Cemetery

In my home state of Tennessee, I am used to finding cemeteries nestled within huge forested lands. If the cemetery is on an expanse of farmland or atop one of our beautiful mountains, I am often lucky enough to enjoy a few miles of unobstructed visibility.

In contrast to our landscape back home, the plains of west Texas offer amazing vistas that I just don’t get to view in Tennessee. On my cemetery hunting trip across America, I found a cemetery with such a vista driving just outside the dusty Texas town of Ringgold.

Upon pulling off I-82, I expected to find a small barren piece of land with no greenery in sight. Instead, Ringgold Cemetery offered a wide expanse of green grass offset by an azure blue horizon. Miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles await visitors to Ringgold Cemetery.

The grave sites are sparse yet many tombstones stand in contrast to the mostly flat land.

Cara Dilane Fenoglio
A Texas Star Gravemarker

Nearby: Miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles.

Nacona Cemetery – Nacona Texas 76255

Nacona is a nice cemetery and I was surprised at the greenery.

Nacona Cemetery, Nacona, Texas
Nacona Cemetery, Nacona, Texas

Driving down route 82 just outside of Nacona, Texas, I passed a couple of great looking, small, dusty cemeteries with not a touch of grass around them. April winds blew sandy soil into small ripples and tombstones looked sandblasted from all the fine granular soil endlessly pelting them. One after another I passed these cemeteries vowing to stop at the next. I love these types of cemeteries.

Nacona Cemetery popped up on my GPS and I envisioned an old west cemetery similar to the ones I had already driven by. I was surprised at the greenery within the cemetery and the well manicured grass. The greenery is pleasing though I also enjoy cemeteries that allow the natural substrate to show through.

Nacona is still active and over 5200 people have been interred there. The graves are very well documented and the Nacona Cemetery website gives virtual visitors a tremendous amount of information of the burial sites. Well done.

Nacona Cemetery, Nacona Texas 76255
Nacona Cemetery Gravemarkers, Nacona, Texas