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This list of cemeteries in Texas includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Many prominent people were buried in private cemeteries on their respective properties, sometimes in lead-lined coffins. Many of these family cemeteries were not documented and were therefore lost to time and abandoned; their grave markers having long since been pilfered by vandals or covered by forest growth.
The San Antonio Confederate Cemetery is a private cemetery in the city of San Antonio, Texas, which is now surrounded by the Old San Antonio City Cemeteries Historic District. [1] [2] There are more than 900 graves of Confederate veterans in the 2 acre (0.8 ha) cemetery, including those of colonels John S. Ford and George W. Baylor. [1]
(The Center Square) – Washington state Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, is hoping the third try is the charm for legislation that would allow families to bury loved ones on privately owned land under ...
Texas law doesn't allow pets to be buried next to humans in non-pet cemeteries. Bluebonnet Pet Cemetery in Dallas has been seeing an upswing in plots for people, owner David Stafford told WFAA-TV.
Founders Memorial Cemetery, Houston – oldest cemetery in Houston; Jackson Ranch Church Cemetery and Eli Jackson Cemetery, Hidalgo County, Texas [7] Olivewood Cemetery, Houston – the city's earliest African-American cemetery, founded around 1870; Texas State Cemetery, Austin; Whittaker Memorial Cemetery, Kildare, Texas
The township's citations come after the families of people buried at Deepdale Memorial Gardens said the cemetery hasn't been cared for properly in years. Owner of private Delta Township cemetery ...
The Texas State Cemetery (TSC) is a cemetery located on about 22 acres (8.9 ha) just east of downtown Austin, the capital of the U.S. state of Texas.Originally the burial place of Edward Burleson, Texas Revolutionary general and vice-president of the Republic of Texas, it was expanded into a Confederate cemetery during the Civil War.