Williamson County contact Wayne Ware (512)
863-2202
Williamson County Cemeteries
We are under construction on this cemeteries
page - if you have any information please let us know - Call or e-mail
Wayne Ware day time 800-926-0226 ex 202 after hours 512-863 2202
or e-mail
wayne-ware@williamson-county-historical-commission.org
Here is a new and updated spread sheet we are working on to list all the cemeteries in WC - some have been found. some locations are unknown and some even have melted away back to mother earth - please help us find and indentify these cemeteries - please call or e-m me with and corrections or additions.
(This list is complete as we can get it using several sources and we well come any updates we can get) - I would like acknowledge John Christeson for all his hard work on helping the Commission on this project - you can find a lot of his hard work listed on findagrave.com)
WCHC Cemetery database NEW 2010.xls
Williamson County Texas Digital Cemetery Project
by Michael Sheppard < sheppard @ cs.unm.edu
this database in alphabetical order - is
basically an image - click on the + sign
to enlarge the view to the point where you can see the names and
then use the
arrows to go left - right -up - down
Williamson
County, Texas Digital Cemetery Project
this is a list of Williamson County
cemeteries by Michael Sheppard
Cemeteries in Williamson County, Texas
Find a Grave . Com this is a very good site and is being updated daily
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txwcgs/Cemetery.htm
Death Records -
Find death records for lost loved ones, cemetery information, obituaries and more all online.
for a complete listing click here by the Texas Historical Commission
click on thumbnail images for an enlarged view
Champion Cemetery![]() 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 Cemetery |
Walburg ![]() Lutheran Church Cemetery 2007 |
![]() Shiloh-McCutcheon Cemetery |
Union Hill Cemetery Circa 1878 |
view Hutto Cemetery Marker Dedication
Hutto Lutheran Cemetery Dedication of Historical Marker
The
I.O.O.F. Cemetery’s Many
Interesting Stories
Prepared for the
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.
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
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
Judge G.
W. Glasscock, whose father donated the land on which
Resting
in a shady grove is Henry Burkhardt. Conscripted into the Prussian Army
as a teen, he fled to
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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Narratives from the
Georgetown's Yesteryears Book A special thanks to The Georgetown Heritage Society and Martha Mitten Allen for letting the us post these wonderful first person stories. see Foreword and Preface |
Elmo Sherman - Tom W. Sweeney, Interviewer
This might not be a very pleasant thing to talk about, but I'd kind of like to tell you about the first funeral that I can remember going to and how it impressed me. It was so different from what we have now.
My grandfather on my mother's side was a retired Baptist preacher. One time (1870-73), he pastored the First Baptist Church in Dallas, which is, of course, the largest Baptist church in the world. My grandmother had died even before I was born, and Grandpa came to live with us here in Georgetown the last several years of his life. He lived to be ninety-four years of age.
I was so impressed when they had his funeral, because his funeral was held in the old Baptist Church, which was located on Church Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The thing that impressed me so much was that we went out to the cemetery. They had a beautiful carriage that was drawn by two beautiful black horses. There was a man dressed in black by the name of Mr. Dave Whitworth, and he sat up very stately on the top of that coach and drove into the cemetery. I never will forget how impressed I was at that sight. Grandpa was buried here in the Oddfellows Cemetery in Georgetown. That made an impression on me that I will never forget.
by one of Georgetown's own JC Johnson
he is one of Georgetown's historians