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Senterfitt Cemetery

Lometa, Lampasas County

Marker Text

Pioneer Reuben S. Senterfitt came to this area in the 1860s. A town named for him gradually built up and at its peak boasted hotels, mills, stores, saloons, a school, churches, a stage stop, and this cemetery. The town declined after it was bypassed by the railroad in the 1890s. The cemetery contains the graves of many early settlers. The oldest documented burial here is that of Joseph C. Howell, who died in 1877 at the age of three. Also interred in the graveyard are veterans of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and Vietnam.

Marker Details

Address
Location Description from Lometa, take FM 381 SW about 2.5 miles
Marker # 4640
Dedicated 1988
Size, Type 18" x 28"
Code cemetery
Latitude, Longitude 31.203296, -98.443439

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