Cemetery

Bock

Lavaca County · THC Atlas #7285001905

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About this site

Bock 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 29.5576, -96.8202. The nearest cataloged historic site is Bila Hora (cemetery), about 0.7 miles away. Others within a short drive include Allen, Brown Chapel, and Willowsburg.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7285001905. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Bock Cemetery is a small historic burial ground near the Czech community of Bila Hora in Lavaca County. Only about eleven markers survive, though evidence points to many more burials, and family names here include Bock, Dreyer, Laas, Mertz and Weller. Among those interred is Charles Bock, a Texas State Ranger buried in 1913.

Sources: lavacacountyhistory.org

📍 29.5576, -96.8202 · Lavaca County

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