Cemeteries

Features

Hancock Family Cemetery The Hancock family's children are buried in what was once the country and is now the center of a growing subdivision in west Austin.

Preece Cemetery This cemetery not too far from Steiner Ranch once served as the final resting place for those who worked the land in this rapidly urbanizing area.

Pond Springs Cemetery What once was a quaint cemetery is getting encircled by strip malls, apartments and toll roads. Hope there's some rest still to be found here.

Dessau Lutheran Cemetery Early German immigrants congregated here in northeast Austin and many remain forever.

The large Texas flag that flies over the cemetery shown with the state capital in the distance. Texas State Cemetery

Recent Log Entries

Tiny plot just off the trail Austin Explorer visited McRae Family Cemetery
Small rural Cemetery Bing-GTX visited Rocky Hollow Cemetery
A neglected cemetery Bing-GTX visited Burdett Prairie Cemetery
Hidden cemetery Bing-GTX visited Greenwood Cemetery
Northern most of three adjacent Cemeteries Bing-GTX visited Mt Horeb Cemetery

Recommended Item

Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves
China Galland
List Price: $24.95 Our price: $16.00

By the eve of the Civil War, there were four million slaves in North America, and Harrison County was the largest slave-owning county in Texas. So when China Galland returned to research her family history there, it should not have surprised her to learn of unmarked cemeteries for slaves. "My daddy never let anybody plow this end of the field," a local matron told a startled Galland during a visit to her antebellum mansion. "The slaves are buried there." Galland's subsequent effort to help restore just one of these cemeteries—Love Cemetery—unearths a quintessential American story of prejudice, land theft, and environmental destruction, uncovering racial wounds that are slow to heal.