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Carol Taylor: Seeking The Hunt County Poor Farm Cemetery

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey
Published August 15, 2019 at 6:00 AM CDT
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Carol Taylor, the chairman of the Hunt County Historical Commission, says progress is being made in locating a cemetery for people who died on the county poor farm in the period from the 1890s to the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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