Cemetery

Turner

Lavaca County · THC Atlas #7285002505

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About this site

Turner 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 29.5839, -96.8494. The nearest cataloged historic site is Simpson (cemetery), about 1.7 miles away. Others within a short drive include Hackberry, Brown Chapel, and Lawrence, Joseph.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7285002505. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Turner Cemetery is a small family plot in northeastern Lavaca County. Only the fragments of about four gravestones survive, all belonging to members of the Turner family for whom the cemetery is named. It is one of the county's many tiny pioneer-family burial grounds documented in Sammy Tise's Lavaca County cemetery survey.

Sources: lavacacountyhistory.org accessgenealogy.com

📍 29.5839, -96.8494 · Lavaca County

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