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Families west-bound buried in Dawson County

On the outskirts of Ackerly, amid a cotton field just off County Road 33, is a mound of sand covering the gravestones of members of two families.Their names are buried, but their story, or part of it, is still around.Years of soil and brush have buried most of the gravestones. It took County Attorney Steven Payson, a volunteer who clears up area cemeteries, a little bit of digging to uncover the grave of a two-day-old baby girl who died May 15, 1907. The baby’s headstone lists her parents’ names as JW and LJ Anderson.Nearby is the headstone of 15-year-old TJ ...

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Lamesa Press-Reporter

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