Heroes, Scoundrels and Angels:: Fairview Cemetery of Gainesville, Texas

Local historian Ron Melugin has roamed this frontier Texas cemetery for over a decade, collecting fascinating stories about the residents laid to rest here. Spanning the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these tales of extraordinary people with ordinary causes of death and ordinary people who died in extraordinary ways illustrate the uncertainties of life on the edge of the Confederacy and next door to Oklahoma Indian Territory. From the former slave who died of old age to the chemi...