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Cemetery Name |
Location |
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Beall Cemetery |
LaVernia.
Off FM
Road 1346,
between La Vernia and St. Hedwig. |
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Bird
Cemetery |
Caddo |
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Blessed Sacrament Cemetery |
Poth.
100 Sunshine Drive |
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Cañada
Verde Cemetery |
-- |
Canary Island Cemetery
(a.k.a. Castro Cemetery) |
Floresville. Historical
marker : "Established prior
to 1732 by Canary Islanders who
formed the first organized civil
settlement in Texas at San Fernando
de Bexar, now San Antonio."
Located off U.S. 181 about two
blocks north at Texas 97/F.M. 536
intersection (Plum & 10th Streets). |
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De la
Zerda |
Floresville. Located in what
used to be the town of Lodi, now a
residential area encompassed by the
city of Floresville. Situated on the
former lands of Nemencio de la Zerda,
Sr., and Jose Maria Flores, on the
banks of the San Antonio River.
To get to De la Zerda Cemetery from
Business Loop 181 South in
Floresville (4th Street), turn right
at Peach Street. Follow Peach Street
until it dead ends at a home behind
a gate. Turn left on the dirt road
in front of the gate. The cemetery
will be on the right at the far end
of the property. Cemetery is
in poor
condition with most stones broken or
missing. It sits beneath a large
canopy of trees and any remaining
headstones are almost impossible to
read due to weathering and lack of
light. Earliest
recorded burial - 1877. |
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De
los Santos Cemetery |
Saspamco |
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Demmer
Cemetery |
Nixon |
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Denhawken Cemetery |
8291
FM 1347, Stockdale. Formerly
known as Mesquite Prairie Cemetery,
it was founded in 1904 by the German
farmers who had recently moved to
the area from Fayette and Lavaca
counties in search of more land for
their large families. the
first burial was that of baby Hugo
Steenken in 1906. The land was
purchased from Wm Peters.
First trustees were Chas. Boysen,
Jake Maerz, and Carl Steenken.
Florentino Quintanilla met with them
representing the Hispanic community,
who had purchased burial sites in
the northern section. Maerz
and Steenken each served the
association for over forty years.
Arnold Lembeck and Erna Wehmeyer
were active officers for the next
generation spanning over 30
years...." |
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Dewees Cemetery |
SW of Poth on east
corner of FM Roads 541 and 1344. |
|
Eckert Cemetery |
-- |
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Emmanuel Assembly of
God Cemetery |
Poth. |
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Fairview Cemetery |
3227 CR 107,
Floresville. |
|
Floresville City
Cemetery |
Rte 181 across from
Sacred Heart Cemetery |
|
Floresville
City Cemetery #2 |
Plum
Street between 4th and 10th Streets, Floresville |
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Garza-Valdez Cemetery |
Rte 181 (4th Street),
Floresville. |
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Gilley
Cemetery |
Hwy
181, 10 miles from Floresville |
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Harper
Cemetery |
CR
405, between Stockdale and
Floresville. |
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Immanuel
Lutheran Church Cemetery |
LaVernia.
Historical Marker : "This cemetery
traces its beginnings to the
formation of Immanuel Lutheran
Church of LaVernia, which began in
1901. The congregation, mostly of
German descent, soon found itself in
need of a cemetery. In 1902,
Gustav and Bertha Schroeder donated
two acres of land to the church for
that purpose. Members built a
fence and held a formal dedication.
The first burial was for Gabriele
Hedwig Koepp, infant daughter of
Franz and Augusta Koepp, in October
1902. Also buried here are
early community and church leaders,
and a number of military veterans
from conflicts dating to World War
I..." |
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Keenan Cemetery |
Corner FM Roads 427
and 537, Floresville. |
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Kicaster Community
Cemetery |
LaVernia.
Historical Marker : "The families of
Isaac Crow, R. T. Spivey, Dr. W. R.
Callaway, T. P. Camp, J. E. Watkins,
Isom Ferguson, L. P. Pittman, and
others began a farming settlement
here in the 1860's. John James
donated land for a schoolhouse
(1872), where church services were
also held. A. C. and Mary Anderson
in 1887 gave more land for public
use. Easterling Post Office opened
in 1887, was soon renamed Kicaster
for nearby creek, but closed in
1906. The school was phased out in
1940, and the churches moved away.
Kicaster Cemetery, in use since the
1870's, now marks the site of the
community." |
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LaVernia United
Methodist Church Cemetery |
LaVernia |
|
Leach Cemetery |
Off Nockenut Road
from FM Road 1681. |
Lodi Cemetery
(a.k.a. Garza-Valdez
Cemetery) |
Floresville.
Business Roate 181 (4th Street) |
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Marcelina Cemetery |
510
County Road 404, Floresville.
Formerly Marcelina Baptist Church
Cemetery and Foster family cemetery.
The
original Marcelina Cemetery was the
private burial plot for the family
of Samuel H. Foster. The first
person buried in the cemetery was
Martin Donaho who died in 1882.
When Mr. Foster sold the farm where
the burial plot was located, he kept
the one and one half acre cemetery.
On May 18, 1901 Isaac and Melinda
Sims sold six and one half acres to
the Marcelina Baptist Church for use
as church yard and cemetery. The
new cemetery was fenced. This land
was joined to the Foster family
cemetery. In ensuing years, the
fence between the two cemeteries
disappeared and the two cemeteries
became one. |
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Maxwell Cemetery |
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McCracken Cemetery |
Union
Valley.
On private land near the point where
Wilson, Guadalupe, and Gonzales
county lines come together. About
3/4 mi. from the site of Old
Albuquerque. Not on a public road,
lying in the middle of a pasture,
can be reached by following FM 1687
between Nixon and Hy 123 and taking
one of two county roads leading in
an easterly direction toward the
corner of Wilson County, north of
Union Valley. List of interments in
Karon Mac Smith's local history, "On
the Watershed of Ecleto and the
Clear Fork of Sandies." |
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Montoya Cemetery |
-- |
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Moore Family Cemetery |
Caddo |
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Neyland Cemetery |
Between Seguin and
Stockdate off Rte. 123 to CR 435.
Set off on right. |
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Nockenut Cemetery |
North East County.
Historical Marker : "The
community of Nockenut began in 1857,
when a number of German and Polish
immigrants settled in this area.
Originally located in Guadalupe
County, it became part of Wilson
County after a boundary change in
1869. A post office opened in
1858 and by 1890 Nockenut was a
thriving village with a population
of 80. At is height, the town
boasted homes, stores, a school, a
church, a wagon yard, a cotton gin,
and a cemetery. The origin of
the town's name is the subject of
several oral history accounts, most
of which refer to variations on
names of local trees. Nockenut
began to decline after the
Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio Railroad bypassed it in
1906. By the end of the 20th
century, the cemetery was the last
physical reminder of the community." The
Nockenut Cemetery opened in 1870
with the burial of Anna Maria
Johnson Callander. The Hobbs
Family dedicated this land and the
burial ground that year. |
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Old Bird Cemetery |
Ecleto |
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Old Picosa Cemetery |
Graytown |
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Our Lady of Perpetual
Help Cemetery |
Saspamco |
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Palm Cemetery |
Stockdale.
Private cemetery located
approximately 100 meters southwest
of St.
Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Stockdale |
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Picosa Cemetery |
Floresville |
|
Picosa-Martinez Cemetery #2 |
Floresville.
Take FM 536 out of
Floresville for 3 miles until it
intersect to the left. Continue on
FM 536 for approximately 3 miles. CR
104 will be on the left, and the
cemetery will be on the right. (Last
stand of mailboxes on right just
before drive into cemetery.) |
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Pleasant Valley Cemetery |
676 CR 474,
Stockdale. |
|
Polley Family Cemetery |
FM
Road 539N. Historical Marker :
"Joseph Henry Polley (1795-1869) was
born in Whitehall, New York to
Jonathan and Rachel Hubbard Polley.
He later moved to Missouri, where he
was a friend of Moses Austin, with
whom he traveled to Texas in 1820.
The next year, he returned to Texas
with Stephen F. Austin as one of the
original "Old 300" colonists.
Polley settled in the Brazoria
District and wed Mary Augusta
Bailey, daughter of pioneer Brit
Bailey. The couple built a home that
they name Whitehall. Polley
served as sheriff and assisted
retreating settlers during the
runaway scrape, 1836; Mary helped
mold candles for use by the first
Texas Congress. Polley moved
his family in 1847 to this area,
then a part of Guadalupe County.
The family established a cemetery at
this site in 1848. When
Emeline Elizabeth Polley James, one
of the eleven Polley children, died
while giving birth, two years later,
her daughter of the same name was
interred next to her. The
family completed the Whitehall home
about 1850. Over the years,
several family members, including
Joseph Henry Polley, were laid to
rest in the cemetery. Mary
Bailey Polley (d. 1888), the family
matriarch, was the last to be buried
here."
From
Sutherland Springs, take FM 539 N.
approx 2 - 3 mi. Cemetery is located
on left hand side of road across the
street from the old Joseph H. Polley
Historical Home. Established in
1848, 10 graves. |
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Rector Chapel Cemetery
|
FM
Road 2772, LaVernia. Historical
cemetery, Take FM 775 N. from
Chihuahua Street in downtown La
Vernia toward Seguin. Cross Cibolo
Creek Bridge & go right on FM 2772.
Go approximately 6/10ths mile,
cemetery will be on right hand side
of road. |
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Robinson Family
Cemetery |
Floresville |
|
Rock Church Cemetery |
Floresville.
See Fairview Cemetery. |
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Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery |
2015 3rd Street,
Floresville |
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San Lorenzo Cemetery |
LaVernia |
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Sauceda Cemetery |
Off US 181, east and
north of the bend in CR 150 |
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Shiloh Cemetery |
FM 539, Sutherland Springs |
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Smith Ranch Cemetery |
Stockdale |
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St.
Ann's Catholic Cemetery |
Off CR
236, just southeast of the
intersection of FM Roads 541 and
1347. Kosciusko |
|
St. Anns Cemetery |
LaVernia. On
FM-1346 between US-87 and CR-347 the
towns of La Vernia and St. Hedwig. |
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St.
John's Lutheran Cemetery |
1520 E. Westmeyer
Street,
Poth. |
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St. Luke Catholic
Cemetery |
Loire. Off CR
116. |
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St Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery |
Stockdale |
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Steele Branch Cemetery |
Between FM 3335 and FM 1107; off FM
1107, Stockdale |
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Stockdale Cemetery |
Stockdale.
Historical Marker : "Before the
Stockdale Cemetery was begun in the
1870s, most burials in the area took
place in private, family graveyards.
About 1873, however, a young man who
was not related to any of the local
settlers was thrown from his horse
and killed. To provide a place
for his burial, Dr. T.M. Batte gave
one acre of land at this site, and
the burial ground has been used by
Stockdale citizens since that time.
Additional acreage was purchased in
1881 and 1904, and in 1938 area
resident Paul Ballard donated an
acre of land for use by anyone who
did not have a family plot and
needed a place for burial. The
earliest marked grave in the
Stockdale Cemetery, that of Sallie
A. Pope, is dated 1873. Many early
settlers are buried here, including
the town's founder, John R. King,
and the first schoolteacher, Martin
West. The cemetery also contains the
graves of numerous war veterans and
victims of a post-World War I flu
epidemic...." |
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Sutherland Springs Cemetery |
FM 538,
Sutherland Springs. |
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Trial Family Cemetery |
Floresville |
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Union Valley Cemetery |
Union Valley |
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Ware-Cure/Griffin/Markum
Cemetery |
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Wheeler Cemetery # 1 |
Stockdale.
The Wheeler Cemetery
is located approximately five miles
southwest of Stockdale in Wilson
County. It is in a pasture about
1000 feet south of County Road 312.
The land containing the Wheeler
Cemetery was originally owned by
John Edwin Wheeler, then sold to his
brother, David Thwing (D. T.)
Wheeler in the 1860s. It was here
that D. T. lived and worked the land
with his large family for several
decades. D. T. and John also
operated the Wheeler Mill on the
Cibolo River, located close to the
family home about one-half mile east
of the cemetery. Having no public
cemetery available at the time, D.
T. set aside the plot on his farm
for family burials. His second wife,
Maniza and daughter, Lela, were
among the first to be buried here in
1863. D. T.’s father, John, having
brought the family to Texas in 1840,
was buried here in 1867. D. T. and
his third wife, Mary Watson, were
buried here in February, 1892. His
first wife, Mary E. Allen died of
Cholera, with her infant, in San
Antonio. They are believed to be
buried in that city. The Wheeler and
Butler families were close neighbors
owning adjacent tracts of land, and
developed a kinship when D. T.
Wheeler’s daughter, Lenora Angelina
(Angie) Wheeler married John
Crittenden (J. C.) Butler in
December of 1874. J. C. Butler died
in June of 1892 and was the first
member of the Butler family to be
buried here. Thereafter the cemetery
was sometimes known as
“Wheeler-Butler Cemetery.” Other
families with relatives buried in
the cemetery are that of Allison,
Carmichael, Harrell, and Lambert. In
early 2008, the Wheeler, Butler, and
Allison descendents formed the
“Wheeler-Butler Cemetery
Association” for the purpose of
renovating and maintaining the
cemetery. |
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Wheeler Cemetery # 2 |
Stockdale.
This small cemetery,
consisting of only two known
burials, is located off Highway 87
(SE Main Street) about one mile
southeast of downtown Stockdale. It
sits in a pasture on private
property near the last home of
Daniel Milner and Lavinia Hunter
Wheeler, who are interred here. The
Wheelers moved to Wilson County in
the early 1880s, to be near their
daughter, Emma Moore. Their entire
married lives had been spent in
Matagorda County, Texas where they
parented eleven children.
Tragically, nine of the children
died at early ages, leaving only two
surviving daughters by the time the
Wheelers moved to Wilson County.
Through the years there have been
scattered reports that slaves might
also have been buried in the plot.
There are no other grave markers or
evidence to support the existence of
additional burials in the cemetery. |
