Cemetery

St. Mary's Catholic

Hallettsville vicinity · Lavaca County · THC Atlas #7285003105

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About this site

St. Mary's Catholic is a cemetery in Hallettsville vicinity, Lavaca County. 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 29.4497, -96.9978 near Hallettsville vicinity. The nearest cataloged historic site is St. Mary's Parish (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Vollentine, Arthur Henry, Church of the Immaculate Conception of Blessed Virgin Mary, and Vysehrad School.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7285003105. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery lies on a tract that Bernard Brown deeded to Bishop Jean-Marie Odin in 1844, part of what is regarded as the oldest rural Catholic parish in Texas, settled before the Texas Revolution. Its oldest gravestone marks the 1849 burial of Josiah D. Blackburn, and in the early years both Catholics and non-Catholics were interred here. A stone wall that once enclosed the grounds was removed in 1890, and the well-kept cemetery has since grown to more than nine hundred markers.

Sources: lavacacountyhistory.org texasescapes.com

📍 29.4497, -96.9978 · Hallettsville vicinity, Lavaca County

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