Squaw Creek Cemetery (1992)

On their way west from Arkansas to California about 1856, the family of Francis Marion Nixon and his wife, Catherine Elliot, was forced to detour south from the North Texas Plains to this area to obtain water and forage for their livestock. After first camping on a hill near the Mason/Gillespie County line, thereafter referred to as Nixon Point, they settled in this section of Gillespie County during the 1860s. The Nixon's son, Andrew Jackson Nixon, and his wife, Lurana Wooten, built their home in this vicinity and with their fourteen children formed the nucleus of the community of Squaw Creek. Marriages by their descendants added the names Baethge, Ratto, Strackbein, Mund, Faught, and Gibson to the extended Nixon family line. The Squaw Creek Cemetery grounds were a part of a 110-acre conveyance from A. J. Nixon to his brother-in-law, Henry Strackbeing, in 1872. The first recorded interment is that of Elizabeth Gibson in 1873. The first legal mention of the cemetery occurs in a deed executed by Adolph Strackbein in 1914. Of the approximately 60 interments here, most are members of the extended Nixon family. The burials include those of American Civil War and World War I veterans.

Squaw Creek Cemetery is a historical marker in Hilltop, Gillespie County, dedicated in 1992. It is one of 108 historical markers documented in Gillespie County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 189 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 30.4395, -99.0446 near Hilltop. The nearest cataloged historic site is Squaw Creek Cemetery (cemetery), about 0.4 miles away. Others within a short drive include Mund Cemetery, Heinrich Kensing_Johanna Borchers Kensing, and Welge Cemetery.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5171010117. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.