| Marker Number |
4730 |
| Atlas Number |
5439004730 |
| Marker Title |
Site of Berachah Home and Cemetery |
| Index Entry |
Berachah Home and Cemetery, Site of |
| Address |
801 W. Mitchell St. |
| City |
Arlington |
| County |
Tarrant |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
676417 |
| UTM Northing |
3622754 |
| Subject Codes |
fraternal organizations; cemetery; orphanages; women, women's history topics |
| Marker Year |
1981 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
UT-Arlington campus, Doug Russell Park. Cemetery and marker are west of W. Nedderman Dr. |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
The Berachah Rescue Society was organized at Waco in 1894 by the Rev. J. T. Upchurch (b. 1870) for the protection of homeless girls and unwed mothers. Nine years later he opened the Berachah Industrial Home at this site. Ten buildings were located here, including a print shop for publication of the "Purity Journal". The cemetery, which contains more than eighty graves, was first used in 1904 for the burial of Eunice Williams, one of the residents. The home closed in 1935, but the site was used until 1942 as an orphanage run by Upchurch's daughter Allie Mae and her husband Frank Wiese. (1981) |
