Cemetery

Bay City

Matagorda County · THC Atlas #7321001705

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About this site

Bay City is a cemetery in Matagorda County, Texas. It is one of 17 cemeteries documented in Matagorda County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 114 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 28.9987, -95.9642. The nearest cataloged historic site is Cedarvale Cemetery (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Daily Tribune and Matagorda County Tribune, Bethel Baptist Church, and Early Bay City School.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7321001705. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Cedarvale Cemetery, historically called the Bay City Cemetery, was organized on February 28, 1896, when community leaders W. C. Carpenter, John W. Gaines, John W. White, D. P. Moore, and J. M. Sims chartered the Bay City Cemetery Association. Its origins trace to the 1896 hunting-accident death of Rufus A. Mathis, buried on land owned by D. P. Moore, who formally deeded four acres for the cemetery that March. Many of Bay City's early settlers are buried here, and the association enlarged the grounds over the following decades.

Sources: cedarvalecemetery.org usgenwebsites.org

📍 28.9987, -95.9642 · Matagorda County

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Nearby in Matagorda County

Daily Tribune and Matagorda County Tribune

Bay City · 1981

Historical Marker

Bethel Baptist Church

Bay City · 1993

Historical Marker

Matagorda County

Matagorda County · 1936

Historical Marker

Early Bay City School

Site of Hilliard High School

Bay City · 2002

Historical Marker

Matagorda, C.S.A.

Matagorda County · 1964