Killeen City Cemetery - Killeen, TX - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

The Killeen City Cemetery had a long history of use before its care was assumed by the city of Killeen. It began as a private cemetery according to the city caretakers. This is verified by an 1899 handbill about the United Thanksgiving celebration that lists the meal as provided by the cemetery association. An early picture from around 1900 shows the cemetery as an overgrown area of tombstones about five miles out in the country. It was originally laid out with a circular drive in the old section B. This was abandoned and the area used for burials. This accounts for the irregular rows in the old sections.

The earliest recorded death in old section “B” is 1856. This may indicate the cemetery is much older than the city. There have been a number of removals to the Killeen cemetery of burials on land flooded by the construction of Belton and Stillhouse lakes and made inaccessible by the building of Fort Hood. Many of the pioneers buried there came from Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee and proudly lists this on their tombstones. There are a few confederate veterans buried here and many veterans of later wars.