Here is what happened to the Bexar County Poor Farm Cemetery.
The Bexar County Poor Farm Cemetery was recently bulldozed over to aide the utility line easements connected to the new shooting range for Bexar County Sheriff’s Shooting Range back in 2019. These utility lines are pipes which provide electricity and water to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Shooting Range. None of the burials were harmed in the process.
Today the cemetery is now gone. So are the fence and markers. All that remains is an empty field of grass and the former road connecting to this cemetery which has now been removed. (Ref: https://www.uer.ca/locations/show.asp?locid=23427)
Most of Bexar County Poor Farm Cemetery near Salado Creek was disinterred during the mid 1970s while the Poor Farm and sanitarium were being shut down.
There is no inventory on the number of interments at the Poor House Cemetery and no record of whether any or all those interments were ever moved to the City Cemetery. None of the burials were transcribed onto any headstones. Yet some interment records exist. (Ref: http://sites.rootsweb.com/~txsaghs2/Pages/Links-Cemetery-Bexar-N-Z.htm)
The Bexar County Poor Farm Cemetery was located at 10915 Southton Road, San Antonio, Texas, US 78223.
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