Bosqueville Cemetery

The Handbook of Texas says Bosqueville was platted in 1858 and its post office opened in April 1860 with Cornellius P. Petit as postmaster. By the mid-1880s the village had three churches, a store and about a hundred people, and in the 1890s a daily stage ran between Waco and China Spring. The post office closed in 1907 and mail came through Waco. The graves here belong to that small crossroads town. The plaque adds that some of the unmarked graves are those of enslaved people, who were part of that community from its first years.

What the plaque says

Bosqueville Cemetery Burials began here as early as 1850 on 10 acres given by Little Berry White for a school and cemetery. A log schoolhouse at this site in 1853-54 served the Methodist and Baptist Churches as a meeting place. Some of the unmarked graves were those of slaves. The first marked graves, dated 1856, were those of David Smith Kornegay, a veteran of San Jacinto, and his mother-in-law, Bridget Lamb McGary. Another San Jacinto soldier, Alexander McKinza, and thirty-one veterans of the confederate army are buried here. In 1908, heirs of Dr. N.J.W. Wortham gave 1.5 acres. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Waco Mammoth National Monument — 1.5 mi
  A bone bed on the Bosque River where a nursery herd of at least 19 Columbian mammoths was trapped and drowned by floodwater 65,000 to 72,000 years ago, left in place under a dig shelter.
• Waco Suspension Bridge — 5.5 mi
  A Brazos crossing opened in January 1870 as the longest single-span suspension bridge west of the Mississippi, tolled until 1889, closed to vehicles in 1971 and now walked.
• Dr Pepper Museum — 5.7 mi
  The 1906 bottling plant of the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company, built where Dr Pepper outgrew a Waco drugstore soda fountain, now the Dr Pepper Museum.
• Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum — 6.1 mi
  The official state repository of Texas Ranger memorabilia, opened in 1968 in Fort Fisher Park on the Brazos, named for a Ranger post of 1837 whose site no one has located.

More markers nearby

• Bosqueville Baptist Church — steps away
• Camp MacArthur, World War I Training Camp — 2.7 mi
• Waco State Home — 2.9 mi
• Texas Christian University — 3.7 mi