Cemetery

Boetcher

Colorado County · THC Atlas #7089007805

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About this site

Boetcher is a cemetery in Colorado County, Texas. It is one of 59 cemeteries documented in Colorado County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 171 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.7556, -96.6595. The nearest cataloged historic site is Shaws Bend (cemetery), about 0.8 miles away. Others within a short drive include Fitzgerald, Grace, and Adkins.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7089007805. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Boetcher Cemetery, also spelled Boettcher though its tombstones give the family name as Böttger, is a small German family plot about a tenth of a mile west of FM 1890 (Shaws Bend Road) in Colorado County. Its earliest burials include Fritz Böttger, who died in 1870, and Hermann Böttger, who died in 1887. By the 2000s a barbed-wire fence ran through the neglected grounds and only Mary Zickuhr's stone remained readable.

Sources: coloradocountyhistory.org

📍 29.7556, -96.6595 · Colorado County

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