Cedar Cemetery

The plaque names William Lewis as one of the brothers behind the cemetery, and he is believed to lie here in an unmarked grave. Born in New York City in 1810, he came to Texas with his brother John Edward about 1833; family records place him at the siege of Bexar and San Jacinto. In Fayette County he served as justice of the peace in 1852, postmaster for Cedar in 1859, county assessor in 1865-66 and county judge in 1870, the year he died. A descendant placed his cenotaph at the Texas State Cemetery.

What the plaque says

Cedar Cemetery John and William Lewis settled in the LaGrange area in the 1830s and established a family cemetery here. The earliest marked grave is that of Carl Huebner in 1857. John and Ann Lewis donated 1.25 acres of land for the cemetery in 1879. All records were kept in German until 1931 \, and German cultural influences are evident on many tombstones. The site became a community cemetery, and the name was changed three times. Burials include veterans of the war for Texas independence, the Civil War, World War I, World War II and the Korean War. (1997)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites — 4.2 mi
  A shared tomb on the Colorado River bluff for the men of the Dawson fight and the black bean lottery, beside the ruins of a German stonemason's spring-fed brewery.
• St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ammannsville) — 6.7 mi
  A wooden Carpenter Gothic church built in 1919 after storm and fire took two before it, its dusty-rose interior painted by an artist whose name was lost for decades.
• Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church (High Hill) — 9.7 mi
  A red brick Gothic Revival church of 1906 in a German farm settlement, where two San Antonio painters spent 1912 faking marble columns and stone vaults on wood.
• Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church (Dubina) — 11 mi
  The church of Texas's first Czech settlement, under a sky-blue painted ceiling that was whitewashed in the 1950s and brought back from faint traces by its own parishioners.

More markers nearby

• Brookfield-Evans-Cremer House — 1.0 mi
• Czech Catholic Union of Texas — 1.1 mi
• The Oldest Czech Settlement — 1.9 mi
• Monument Hill Tomb — 4.0 mi