Cemetery

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Cemetery

Cestohowa · Karnes County · THC Atlas #7255003705

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About this site

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Cemetery is a cemetery in Cestohowa, Karnes County. It is one of 33 cemeteries documented in Karnes County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 62 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.0066, -97.9371 near Cestohowa. The nearest cataloged historic site is Cestohowa Mexican Community Cemetery (cemetery), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include El Fuerte del Cibolo, St Mary, and John Gawlik House.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7255003705. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

This cemetery belongs to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic parish at Cestohowa (Czestochowa), a Polish farming community founded in 1874 by about forty families who moved upstream from nearby Panna Maria, the oldest Polish settlement in America. Jacob Lyssy and John Pawlik, Jr. each donated an acre of land for the burial ground, whose earliest marked grave is that of Franciscus Gawlik, who died in 1878; most markers were inscribed in Polish until the 1930s. By 2000 the cemetery held some 864 graves, including more than 75 military veterans, and it received a Texas historical marker that year.

Sources: tshaonline.org hmdb.org

📍 29.0066, -97.9371 · Cestohowa, Karnes County

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