Williamson County
Historical Commission

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Hutto Lutheran Cemetery Dedication Historical Marker Williamson County  Historical Commission

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 Andice in Andice
on FM970


Florence in Florence


Mount Hope
on FM 200
at FM 209



Wesley Chapel
on Hwy 2338 at FM 246



Rocky Hollow
FM247 off 2338


Matsler
FM245 near 249



Saint Rosa
FM209 2 miles
from 970


Guadalupe
in the 
San Gabriel park
Georgetown


San Gabriel or
old Georgetown
on Scenic Drive



I.O.O.F
7th St Georgetown 
 


Bagdad
1 mile west of Leander
on 2243 at 279


Williams Buck
1 mile west of 207
on 202
Champion Cemertey

 1 mile east of
W Parmer Ln on CR174/Brushy Creek Rd
2 miles south of Jerrell
1 mile west off 35 on CR313
Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery also see
 see listing of graves site

Hutto Lutheran Cemetery

Mager Cemetery
plaque on CR-1466
Mager Cemetery
on CR-1466
west of Coupland
Bittick Cemerty
Walburg

Lutheran Church Cemetery 2007


EV Luth Zion's Cemetery

The I.O.O.F. Cemetery’s Many Interesting Stories

Prepared for the Williamson County Historical Museum by Jim Dillard

More than 200 cemeteries are listed on Williamson County Historical Commission’s 1999 cemetery map. While some sites are city or church owned, others are family plots or solitary graves of nameless cowboys and pioneers. But regardless of size, they all have one thing in common: they hold the key to understanding the past.

Georgetown’s I.O.O.F. Cemetery, like other Williamson County cemeteries, has its share of noted individuals with extraordinary stories. For instance, Sam Houston’s oldest daughter, Nannie Elizabeth Houston Morrow, lies here alongside her husband and daughter.

Not far away is Emma Makemson. As a young girl sitting on a rail fence in the front yard of her parent’s Round Rock home, Emma witnessed the mortally-wounded Sam Bass gallop past after his fatal confrontation with county deputies and Texas Rangers.

Also resting peacefully nearby is J. J. Gordon and his three wives. Gordon served many years as district clerk, as well as Georgetown ISD tax collector. The Gordons are a stone’s throw away from J. W. Hodges, a former county clerk whose tombstone bears his bas-relief portrait.

Scattered throughout are businessmen who helped build the county. Men like David Love, who outfitted cattle drives on their way up the trail; Emzy Taylor, who helped bring the railroad to Georgetown; and the Booty Brothers, who operated a general mercantile on the Square for many years. Also “in residence” are men whose names appear on many of Georgetown’s downtown buildings: Makemson, Dimmitt, Steele and Clamp.

There are also lawmen like Charley Brady, Georgetown’s first police chief; Texas Ranger    R. Y. Secrest, who chased bandits along the Mexican border; and H. C. Purl, former county sheriff who rests next to daughter Annie, whose tombstone is the cornerstone from the original Annie Purl School.

Suffragette Jessie Daniels Ames—who fought not only for women’s right to vote but also for prison reform, civil rights for Blacks, and the passage of a Texas anti-lynch law during the 1920s—is buried here as well.

Judge G. W. Glasscock, whose father donated the land on which Georgetown’s Square is built, rests under a tall granite obelisk near Judge A. S. Fisher’s plot. A Civil War veteran, Judge Fisher closed his law practice at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, organized a company of Rough Riders and traveled to Cuba to fight for Cuban liberation.

Resting in a shady grove is Henry Burkhardt. Conscripted into the Prussian Army as a teen, he fled to France, joined the French Navy and sailed to Haiti. He then transferred to the French Army, which invaded Mexico at Napoleon III’s request under Maximilian, brother of the Emperor of Austria. Captured and thrown into prison, Burkhardt, an aspiring barber, shaved Maximilian prior to the leader’s execution by a Mexican firing squad. Henry later escaped and fled to Georgetown, where he operated Burkhardt’s Palace Barber Shop for many years.

And then there is the tombstone that bears a memorable inscription unlike any other. It reads, “While very young my parents taught me: 1. Don’t whine. 2. Don’t lie. 3. Treat others like you would want them to treat you.”  It closes, “I enjoyed my ride on space ship Earth.”

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