Oldham County TX - Cemetery - Romero Cemetery - Old Tascosa Cemetery Submitted by: Jeanette Perrin Coaly Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ------------------------------------------------ ROMERO CEMETERY Old Tascosa Cemetery Tascosa, Oldham County, Texas NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE BRIGGS, YENASA 1847 1897 BALFOUR, HENRY DAWSON August 19, 1918 January 27, 1938 BALFOUR, MYRA MAY July 20, 1888 September 27, 1942 BALFOUR, WILLIAM CARBON July 13, 1862 Perthshire Scotland March 5, 1935 BALFOUR, JAMES ANDERSON September 20, 1924 August 30, 1936 UREN, UNCLE BILLIE Aye Ahoy 77 Years LENARD, UNCLE JACK November 27, 1909 . WILSON, ALEXANDER . . WILSON, EMELINE . . McCORMICK, ELIZABETH (FRENCHY) August 11, 1852 January 12, 1941 McCORMICK, M February 17 1846 October 7, 1912 WAGNER, KENNY August 12, 1941 December 7, 1992 COMMENTS....Some Headstones are damaged or missing! Yenasa Briggs wife of Theo Biggs "Simply To the Cross I Cling" Wm C Balfour "He died as he lived an honorable man" Uncle Jack Lenard "One of Custer's Gallant Scouts" Elizabeth McCormick -Monument Erected by ex-Boys Ranchers and interested friends 1965 List typed from records at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch. October 27, 2001... jpc _________________________________________________________________ HISTORY The first permanent settlement of the Texas Panhandle is considered to have begun in 1876. Late that spring Charles Goodnight, ex-Texas Ranger and trail blazer, drove a heard of cattle from New Mexico to a tributary of the Canadian and on to Palo Duro Canyon early the next year. In September 1876, New Mexico sheepman CASIMERO ROMERO brought his family to settle at future TASCOSA on the Canadian in what would become Oldham County. His entourage included 3,000 sheep with their herders, plus 12 freight wagons loaded with lumber, supplies and household goods. The same year that ROMERO and GOODNIGHT entered the Panhandle, the citizens of Texas voted to accept a new state constitution, replacing the one forced on them at the close of the Civil War. Included in the reshuffling and reorganization was a act dividing the unorganized territories in western Texas and the Panhandle into counties. Tascosa village grew up around ROMERO's home when other New Mexico sheepmen followed ROMERO to this ancient crossing on the Canadian. A blacksmith shop, a store and saloon were the first businesses. Soon cowboys and cattlemen were trading, drinking and carousing in the village. see Boothill Cemetery List and Photos In 1880 when the census takers made their rounds of the Panhandle, there were 285 persons in the unorganized area. Mobeetie,Tascosa and Clarendon were the first three villages in the Panhandle. Dodge City, Kansas, at the end of the rails, was the supply center. The Tascosa to Dodge City Trail ran 242 Miles, crossing MOORE COUNTY from southwest to northeast. It was 35 miles from Tascosa to the Little Blue station in MOORE COUNTY. see story in "100 Moore Years" by Martha Crabb. This Page Was Last Updated Monday, 19-NOV-2001 23:47:26 MDT Copyright 2001 by Jeanette Perrin Coaly