Loving County is so vacant that each inhabitant could claim 10 square miles as his or her own. City dewellers in Manhattan get 400 square feet. There are not a lot of rules and regulations, meaning smokers can light up anywhere in Loving County's only sitdown eating establishment. The wide-open spaces are knotted together by a few roads that lead to enjoy a communtiy bond that insulates them against crime and juvenile deliquency. No families are moving in and residents expect little change.
Most adults work in the oil patch.
The county has been around since the late 1800's. It was named for Oliver Loving, a cattleman who was mortally wounded by Indians as he rode ahead of his herd in 1866. The county's population peak might have been in 1933, when 600 people lived here, most of them hoping to cash in on an oil boom that started in the mid- 1920's. If you would like to inform us of other information about cemeteries, whether this cemetery or another, please do so. Specific questions to the general viewing audience should be posted to the query boards you can find on the opening page of Cemeteries of Texas.