Brownsboro Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery
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N 32° 18.148 W 095° 36.799
15S E 253935 N 3576962
This post-mounted subject marker stands next to the "Site of Old Normandy" marker. A brown "HISTORICAL MARKER" sign points right at the two of them from a couple of feet away. All this is on the south side of TX 31 in Brownsboro.
Waymark Code: WMW7NH
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/20/2017
Views: 4
Marker erected by the Texas Historical Commission.
Texas Historical Commission Atlas data:
Index Entry Brownsboro Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery
Address SH 31 at FM 314
City Brownsboro
County Henderson
UTM Zone 15
UTM Easting 254122
UTM Northing 3576935
Subject Codes graveyards; Lutheran denomination; Botany; Norweigan settlement
Marker Year 1976
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 10345
Marker Text:
After migrating from Norway in 1845, Ole Reierson bought the land that included this cemetery site (1.1 mi. ESE). He chose the spot for his burial and carved several of the plain brown gravestones before he died in 1852. The cemetery's 24 marked and 81 unmarked graves are mostly those of Norwegian immigrants. A Lutheran church, built nearby in 1889, served as a cemetery chapel until the 1920s. Will Tergerson tended the site for many years. An association formed in 1974 by descendants of early settlers now maintains it. (1976)
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