Live Oak Cemetery

The original four-acre section of this cemetry included land donated by James M. Turley (1816-83) and Andrew Jackson Hammett (1829-1907). The oldest grave is that of Turley's daughter, Tennessee Belle Hart, and her baby, who died on Aug. 27, 1874. A community church, erected near the burial ground in 1874, also housed a school from 1877 to about 1886. Pioneers in this area gathered each summer for a 10-day long camp meeting held under an adjacent brush arbor. Live Oak Cemetery was enlarged in 1948, when Herman Heep gave an additional 11.06 acres. The site contains about 1600 graves. (1976)

Live Oak Cemetery is a historical marker in Manchaca, Travis County, dedicated in 1976. It is one of 320 historical markers documented in Travis County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 591 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 30.1255, -97.8176 near Manchaca. The nearest cataloged historic site is Live Oak (cemetery), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include McCuistion, Runkle-Smith, and Brown.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5507016137. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.