Cemetery - Cemeteries in Williamson County, Texas

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

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for a complete listing click here by the Texas 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 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 EV Luth Zion's Cemetery
	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 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.”

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

THE HORSE-DRAWN HEARSE

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.

here's a MP3 audio file (oral history) on the Old Georgetown Cemetery
by one of Georgetown's own JC Johnson
he is one of Georgetown's historians

view other Williamson County history pages