Charles Frederick King

King's grave lies in City Cemetery No. 1, one of the burial grounds that make up the Old San Antonio City Cemeteries Historic District. The 103-acre complex gathers the city's oldest cemeteries, established between 1853 and 1904 on land the city parceled off and sold to churches and other groups. Counts vary between thirty-one and thirty-two separate cemeteries. Twenty-four hold mostly Anglo burials and seven are solely or largely African American, while most nineteenth-century Hispanic burials went to San Fernando Cemetery. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

What the plaque says

Charles Frederick King Served in the Texas Army, 1836. Was Mayor of San Antonio, 1847-1849 and 1852-1853. Born in New Hampshire, January 17, 1811. Died in San Antonio, May 13, 1869.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Alamo — 1.2 mi
  Mission San Antonio de Valero before it was a fort: a church its builders never finished, a thirteen-day siege in 1836, and the Army gable of 1850-52 that became its emblem.
• La Villita Historic Arts Village — 1.3 mi
  The little village across the river from the presidio, where Cos surrendered San Antonio in 1835, rebuilt by Depression-era youth crews as a working crafts village.
• San Antonio River Walk — 1.3 mi
  A Depression-era park one level below downtown, built because San Antonio refused to pave its river after the 1921 flood, and designed by an architect the project later fired.
• San Fernando Cathedral — 1.7 mi
  The Canary Islanders' parish church on Main Plaza, where Bowie married and Santa Anna raised a red flag, rebuilt in Gothic Revival around the walls of the 1750s church.

More markers nearby

• Samuel S. Smith — steps away
• Captain Lee Hall — steps away
• James Nathaniel Fisk — steps away
• Simona Smith Fisk — steps away