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care of the Borth family. Another set of twins (children of Henry and Leona Peil) are also
: buried in-the cemetery:.The burial- markers testify to the uncertainty of life in those days,,
as there are 9 baby deaths recorded in this very small cemetery.
Dorothy Schoenhals, Lipscomb County Historical Society secretary in 2003,
interviewed Beata Borth, who has several family members buried in Fairview. Mrs. Borth
told of the early burials during the late 1920's and the depression years of the 1930's. She
stated that the men of the church made wooden caskets and the women neighbors usually
lined and padded the caskets with muslin, as more expensive fabrics were unaffordable
and not readily available to them. She remembered that Mr. Littau made Gottleib
Kammerer's casket in 1932. She also recalled that Mrs. Katherina Steinpreis had a
homemade casket the women lined with flannel cloth.
The names of Koch, Steinpreis, Meyer, Yauck, Redelsperger, Weidner, and others
reflect the German culture of the families that live in Lipscomb County and are buried in
this rural cemetery. The burial grounds are typical of the Germans from Russia heritage.
All but two graves are marked with identifying headstones. The Lipscomb County
Historical Society is contacting the family to provide their graves with small granite
markers at a low cost. Fairview cemetery is one of the smallest in the county but has one
of the highest percentages of grave markers. The families of the Germans from Russia are
frugal, hardworking farmers. Their heritage has instilled in them the necessity of marking
for the future generations the records of family birth and death.
The present administrator of the cemetery is Garth Weidner. The cemetery is well
maintained and provides a burial free of charge for the families that wish to be buried
here.
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Kraft, LaVaun. Lipscomb County Cemeteries, book, April 2006; Lipscomb, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth36168/m1/92/?q=waller%20county: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wolf Creek Heritage Museum.