The New Braunfels Cemetery
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vhasler
N 29° 41.103 W 098° 08.335
14R E 583311 N 3284197
History of this cemetery, primarily for local German immigrants, starting 1845 until 1945 when lots were no longer sold.
Waymark Code: WMKN27
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/04/2014
Views: 5
Historical marker located inside cemetery. Only entrance is from the south end roughly at 2000 US81 west (business route).
Marker Number: 3576
Marker Text:
Dedicated at the burial of Mrs. Elise Peter, on June 23, 1845, a few months after New Braunfels was founded. This cemetery gave rest to many colonists in early years of hardship that besieged the German Emigration Company. Gerlach Peter, husband of the first tenant, was buried in July as one other of the 20 fatalites of 1845. There were 348 bruials in 1846. A ferry operator, Johann Justus Kellner (1821-51), has the oldest stone. There are 753 marked and hundreds of unmarked graves. The last vacant lot was sold in 1945. No burials are allowed except in lots purchased before 1946.
(1976)
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