Robert Lee Cemetery
N 31° 53.834 W 100° 28.495
14R E 360523 N 3529993
The Robert Lee Cemetery was established in 1891 and has been serving the (white) residents of this community ever since.
Waymark Code: WMJNTA
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/10/2013
Views: 6
Established at the founding of the city of Robert lee, and sold to the members of the Hayrick Masonic Lodge No. 696 AF & AM, this is the white folks cemetery in Robert Lee. The Hispanic Cemetery is down the road a short distance.
Just a few dozen feet across the highway from this this beautifully maintained dignified Anglo cemetery, the neglected and abandoned Old Mexican Cemetery is disappearing under unmanaged vegetation as its homemade tombstones crumble.
You can feel the history of Robert Lee here - in more ways than one. The written history and the unwritten history collide in this place. It's absolutely fascinating.
Marker Number: 4300
Marker Text:
Established in 1891, two years after the founding of the city of Robert Lee. Developers L.B. Harris and Eugene Cartledge, as president and secretary of the Austin and Northern Land and Cattle Company, on Sept. 29, 1891, sold for $1.00 this 11.7 - acre burial ground. Already site of several graves, it was deeded to Hayrick Lodge No. 696, A.F. & A.M., for "sole use as cemetery grounds for the members, relatives, and friends". Later it was named by the lodge.
Buried here are 34 Civil War veterans, as well as soldiers of later wars and members of many of the families in Robert Lee. (1973)
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