Concordia became the only place in Texas to have a designated Chinese cemetery plot, after the Chinese came to El Paso as railroad workers. There is also an area set aside for Buffalo Soldiers, Freemasons, Mormons and Jewish burials. There is also an "infant nursery" with unmarked graves for babies, many of whom died due to the 1918 influenza pandemic which hit El Paso in January 1919.
And of course, there’s the famous old West gunslingers and outaws buried as well, such as John Wesley Hardin, infamous for killing over 27 men, and killed in an El Paso saloon. His grave is surrounded by a cage to prevent people from digging up his body (picture 3).
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