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Cook Cemetery

Lampasas, Lampasas County

Marker Text

This cemetery, Lampasas' oldest, was established as a pioneer community graveyard in the mid-1850s. The first marked burial here was that of Rebecca Hughes in 1854. The cemetery is named after Arkansas natives William M. and Cynthia Cook who moved to Texas about 1856 and bought the land containing this graveyard in 1861. No recorded burials occurred here after that of J. S. Brown (d. 1873), due, it is believed, to major flooding here in 1873. The cemetery has been altered by highway and business development. It was deeded to the Lampasas County Historical Commission in 1978.

Marker Details

Address
Location Description corner of S. Western and Highway 190 E., Lampasas
Marker # 1048
Dedicated
Size, Type 18" x 28"
Code cemetery
Latitude, Longitude 31.055475, -98.176867

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