Board Branch Cemetery

Lone Grove, the community this graveyard served, took its name from a small grove of pecan trees on the west side of the Little Llano River, where it first stood; it now lies on the east bank. A post office opened in 1876 with John R. Coggin as postmaster, and the town sat on the stage route between Llano and Burnet. In the late nineteenth century Lone Grove supported several businesses and a school. From 1941 to 2000 its population was estimated at about fifty, nine miles northeast of the county seat on what is now Farm Road 2241.

What the plaque says

Board Branch Cemetery This graveyard developed as a public burial ground for the Lone Grove community and surrounding area on the property of W. A. and Sallie Templeton. According to oral history, the earliest grave on this site may be that of William Kinderly, reportedly killed by Indians in 1864. The earliest documented grave is that of Susan Reed (d. 1886), the wife of John S. Reed. There are more than eighty graves dating from 1900 or before. The cemetery is called Board Branch for a mill operation once located on nearby Board Branch Creek. Among the graves of interest on this site are those of Confederate veterans such as Dr. Cyrus Reeves, an Army surgeon from Alabama, and eight others. Veterans of World War I, World War II, and other wars and conflicts are interred here, as well. (2000)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Llano County Courthouse Square — 8.0 mi
  The 1893 Romanesque courthouse on Llano's square, built after a fire at the height of a boom that was meant to make the granite town an iron city.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 13 mi
  A free federal hatchery below Inks Dam on the Colorado, with thirty production ponds that draw birds and a look at how fish are raised from egg to harvest.
• Inks Lake State Park — 14 mi
  A state park on a constant-level lake of the Colorado, between Buchanan and Inks dams, with pink granite and gneiss at the water and CCC work along Park Road 4.
• Colorado Bend State Park — 16 mi
  Old ranch country on the Colorado above Lake Buchanan, where a spring-fed creek drops 70 feet over fern-covered travertine at Gorman Falls.

More markers nearby

• Lone Grove School — 0.7 mi
• Isaac Byler Maxwell — 2.4 mi
• Llano County — 5.7 mi
• Baby Head Cemetery — 6.4 mi