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Laurel Hill Cemetery was established around 1908. City founder John J. Conway donated approximately 11 acres for the cemetery. According to city legend, when Ed Dawson died and the need for a cemetery arose, John C. Conway selected the spot with a pistol shot to the land plot map. The incident is documented in Cleo Dawson’s 1943 fictionalized history of Mission, She Came to the Valley (p331). ...
Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery is located in Mission, Texas. Find a Grave
As a result of the Depression Samuel Forsyth was haunted by the tramp of single unemployed men on the dole: he envisaged a scheme to start a farm-training settlement to help them gain jobs. He personally raised £5000 by public subscription and obtained land at a low rent from the government near Willunga. In June 1930 he opened Kuitpo Industrial Colony where men could work for their board and l...