Cemetery

Waelder Cementerio Bautista

Waelder · Gonzales County · THC Atlas #7177007505

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About this site

Waelder Cementerio Bautista is a cemetery in Waelder, Gonzales County. It is one of 85 cemeteries documented in Gonzales County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 186 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.6885, -97.2897 near Waelder. The nearest cataloged historic site is Waelder City Cemetery (cemetery), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Waelder, Town of, Miller's Store, and Hopkinsville Lodge No. 183, A.F. & A.M..

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7177007505. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

This Mexican-American Baptist cemetery (Cementerio Bautista) serves the Hispanic community of Waelder, a Gonzales County railroad town established in 1874 on the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio line. It is one of several separate congregational burial grounds that Waelder's ethnic and religious communities maintained.

Sources: tshaonline.org accessgenealogy.com

📍 29.6885, -97.2897 · Waelder, Gonzales County

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Cemetery

Waelder City Cemetery

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