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This cemetery is located on Allen Road in Boling, Texas. The cemetery is all grown up and all the stones are under thick brush. I tried to take pictures but had a run in with a very large cottonmouth snake. I let him have his home back and took one picture from the road. Hopefully one day someone will clear the cemetery out and I can take pictures of it. It is on private property.
I have talked to several people about Iago Cemetery, and many people have tried to keep this cemetery cleaned up over the years. One man I talked to said he cleaned it up and all the old timers stopped to talk to him and tell him about the cemetery. He said that there are mostly babies in the cemetery, as there was a disease in Boling, something called "silver spoon disease" and many babies died from it. Once the mothers started using silver spoons the disease went away. There are a few adults there one man a pauper is buried right where the corner post for the fence is but his grave markers was thrown away by someone trying to help clean up the cemetery along with one other one. Most of the graves are along the fence line.
I am going to talk to the Boy Scout troop 123 for Boling and see if they will take over cleaning it and maintaining it
Transcription from Cemetery Survey book at Wharton County Museum:
This Cemetery is located east of FM 1096 on County Road 162 aka Allen Road. This is a small cemetery and was so overgrown you could not enter to do a survey. In 1998, a group from the Boling/Iago area began clean-up of the cemetery. It is rumored that this cemetery was once bulldozed to build a fence, but this cannot be confirmed as of July, 1998.
Most of the survey was done in 1997 by A. C. Shelton, Wharton, who reviewed the Wharton County death records on file at the courthouse. He also interviewed area residents. There may be more burials, as their death certificates could be located in other counties or in Austin. All remarks are from death certificates. Many of the deaths occurred circa 1918 & 1929, years of wide spread influenza epidemics. Many burials are infants.
IAGO SENF TRANSCRIPTION PAGE
View From The Road
In April 2007 someone put a sign up at cemetery
Sign from Road
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