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 Texas State Cemetery - Austin Texas Posted by:  iconions
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The Texas State Cemetery is 22 acres. It is the location where Texas honors prominent Texans with their final resting places and with cenotaphs. The cemetery is located at 901 Navasota Street in Austin, Texas.
Waymark Code: WMZAJ7
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/09/2018
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The TEXAS STATE CEMETERY, Navasota St. between E. 7th and E. 11th Sts., extending to Comal St., is the burial place of many distinguished Texans. Stephen F. Austin's grave is surmounted bu a bronze statue by Pompeo Coppini. It occupies the highest knoll on the grounds. The reclining figure of General Albert Sidney Johnston was done by Elizabet Ney. Coppini did the bronze figure of Johanna Troutman, a Georgian, who made the Lone Star flag of white silk with an azure star that was brought to Texas by the Georgia Battalion in December, 1835. The grave of W.A. (Big Foot) Wallace, Indian scout and Texas Ranger, is also in the cemetery.
- Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State, 1940 -- pg. 175
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. Later it was expanded again to include the graves and cenotaphs of prominent Texans and their spouses.
The cemetery is divided into two sections. The smaller one contains around 900 graves of prominent Texans, while the larger has over 2,000 marked graves of Confederate veterans and widows. There is room for 7,500 interments; the cemetery is about half full, after including plots chosen by people who are eligible for burial.
- Texas State Cemetery Wikipedia Entery
Book: Texas
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 175
Year Originally Published: 1940
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