Notes for Caroline Delilah Victoria PENTECOST

Notes for Caroline Delilah Victoria PENTECOST

CROSS CUT CEMETERY
Marker #1119
Location: SH 279, 24 miles northwest of Brownwood
City: Brownwood vicinity
Marker Erected: 1997
Marker Text:
Settlement began in this area of Brown County after the Civil War when
several
families from southern states moved here. They formed a community,
initially
known as Cross Out. It became Cross Cut in 1897 when an error was made on
a post
office application. Caroline Pentecost Elsberry was the first person
buried in
this community cemetery in July 1879. The two-acre plot of land dedicated
as a
graveyard is believed to have been donated by Mark and Sarah Pentecost.
Oil was
discovered in 1923 in the Cross Cut sand formation. The small town
quickly
swelled to accommodate the increase in population and several new
businesses
were added. By 1940 the population of the town was exceeded by the number
of
burials in the cemetery. In 1954 the Cross Cut School consolidated with
Cross
Plains Schools, and the town declined thereafter. Only a few buildings
and the
cemetery remain. Among those buried here are early settlers and their
descendants, and veterans of conflicts from the Civil War through the
Vietnam
War. A cemetery association was formed in 1976, and a perpetual care
trust was
established. The site continues to serve the area.