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	Ranger Cemetery - Located on Harbor Street on Linn's Bayou  RANGER CEMETERY "The oldest known grave here is that of Major H. Oram Watts, the custom's collector at Linnville and casualty of a Comanche raid on that nearby settlement, Aug 8, 1840. the site was called Ranger Cemetery after the burial in 1850 of Margaret Petyon Lytle, wife of James T. Lytle, the "Poet of the Texas Rangers. When an epeidemic broke out during the Civil War (1861-65), a nearby house was used as a hospital. at least 10 Federal soldiers were among victims buried here, members of the 5 families who owned the site are also interred in Ranger Cemetery. Last burial was in 1941."
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