through these gates

 

Ever wonder why cemeteries have gates?  Is it to allow or to deny access?  Who is being kept in or out?  Sometimes it's the cows.

 

Fluvanna Cemetery

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Fluvanna garage

 

If you are driving along FM 612 in Fluvanna and experience car trouble, don't bother with the Fluvanna Garage for assistance -- just call AAA and they should be there in 3 or 4 hours. Established by real estate promoters banking on the railroad, Fluvanna  boomed. By 1911 it had two real estate offices, a thirty-room hotel, a lumberyard, a cotton gin, and other businesses with its greatest population of 500 in 1915.  Then the railroad closed it station, major highways bypassed the community and today even the post office is shut down.  And the name Fluvanna? Named by the surveyor after his home county in Virginia (Fluvanna County, Virginia - population 25,691.  The area was once part of the original Virginia Colony and named Fluvanna which means "Anne's River" in honor of Queen Anne of England). 

 

Fluvanna, Texas

Scurry County

Farm Roads 612, 1267, and 2350,

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our hero

 

Amidst the uniform lines of upright headstones, this large red rock stands out.  It marks the final resting place of Willis Waymon Green, a WWII veteran.  The federal government furnishes, at no cost, markers for deceased veterans at any cemetery.  Wonder why Willis has a rock?  Admittedly it befits the landscape of this plot of land off the Llano Estacado.  He was a decorated serviceman, serving in the European Campaign and Africa and earning 5 Bronze Stars, the Oak Leaf Cluster and a Purple Heart -- according to this epitaph.  Rest in peace - this Bud's for you.

 

Fluvanna Cemetery

Fluvanna, Texas

Junction of Farm Roads 612, 1267, and 2350

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