About this site
Geiger is a cemetery in Lavaca County, Texas. It is one of 70 cemeteries documented in Lavaca County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 174 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 29.5124, -96.8060. The nearest cataloged historic site is Geiger (cemetery), about 1.0 miles away. Others within a short drive include Obelgoner, Redus, and Willowsburg.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7285001305. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Geiger Cemetery near Sublime in Lavaca County dates to as early as 1868, when German settlers began burying their dead there; the oldest marker belongs to Herman Strunk, who died that September. It takes its name from Christoph Geiger, a German Lutheran minister trained in Basel, Switzerland, who organized the local Lutheran congregation in April 1868. In 1879 church trustees bought 24 acres that included the cemetery, and the associated Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church was completed in 1887 before being moved to Sublime in 1905.
Sources: lavacacountyhistory.orghmdb.org
