Lipscomb County Cemeteries Page: 46
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Kiowa Cemetery
By Helen Herbel and Dorothy Schoenhals
In 1908, the Leonard Littau and Fredrick Meller families
immigrated from the southern part of Russia called the
Crimm area, and settled near Fairview in Northwest
Oklahoma. Later they moved to the Texas Panhandle and
homesteaded near the Kiowa Creek, South of Booker, Texas
in Lipscomb County.
Leonard Littau and his wife, Katherine gave three acres of
their land for a burial place which became the Kiowa
Cemetery. (1) The first person to be buried there was
Abraham Littau on May 31, 1912. (2). Mr. Littau was killed
by lightning while opening a gate on his farm. The cemetery
was dedicated to the church at that time by a circuit pastor, a
missionary from the Evangelical Lutheran German Nebraska
Synod, Rev G.K. Wienke of Auburn Nebraska. Reverend
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Kraft, LaVaun. Lipscomb County Cemeteries, book, April 2006; Lipscomb, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth36168/m1/46/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wolf Creek Heritage Museum.