About this site
Live Oak is a cemetery in McCulloch County, Texas. It is one of 16 cemeteries documented in McCulloch County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 42 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.1426, -99.3319. The nearest cataloged historic site is Union Passenger Depot (historical marker), about 0.3 miles away. Others within a short drive include McCulloch County Courthouse, McCulloch County Courthouse, and General Ben McCulloch, C.S.A..
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7307000805. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Live Oak Cemetery, whose entrance sign now reads Brady Cemetery, is the oldest city cemetery in Brady, the McCulloch County seat, in the northeast part of town. Its original four-acre tract was donated by James M. Turley (1856-1883) and Andrew Jackson Hammett (1829-1907), and the oldest grave belongs to Turley's daughter Tennessee Belle Hart and her infant, who died August 27, 1874. A community church built beside the burial ground in 1874 also served as a school from 1877 to about 1886. The cemetery was enlarged in 1948 when Herman Heep gave an additional 11 acres, and the site now holds roughly 1,600 graves; a state historical marker was placed in 1976.
Sources: hmdb.org
