North Fairview Cemetery

photo by Darrell Colson

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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.