North Fairview Cemetery
North Fairview Cemetery, the newest burial place
in Collingsworth County, is artistically landscaped and well-kept. A Trust Fund
has been set up for future upkeep of the cemetery. This cemetery is located
on the SE1/2 of Section 2, Block 15. It is 0.3 of a mile west of the southwest
corner of Wellington, Texas on FM 338 across the road north of South Fairview
Cemetery. The land was donated to the Wellington Cemetery Association by James
Doneghy. Records of all who are interred here are kept by this organization,
and are listed in the names of those who purchased the lots. Grant Gragson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Gragson, who died on May 10, 1971, was the first
to be buried in North Fairview Cemetery. Willie Gragson made the map of the
cemetery indicating sections and plots. In the southeast corner, a 100-plot
area has been reserved for veterans and their wives. The 1976 officers of the
Wellington Cemetery Association were Willie Gragson, President; Zook Thomas,
Vice-President; Mrs. Robert Lacy, Secretary; Mrs. Jennie Holcomb, Treasurer;
and nineteen members on the board of directors. In 1995 the officers are Oran
Sain, President; Henry Sullivan, Vice-President; Mrs. Robert Lacy, Secretary;
Mrs. Nell McKinney, Treasurer; and a board of directors of 20. The census of
the cemetery begins in the NW corner of each section and in north-to-south rows.
Index of Names
List of Names
Pictures of Cemetery