Clark Family Cemetery

The town Amasa Clark helped settle grew slowly. An ornate courthouse begun in 1890 announced its prosperity, but after 1900 a series of floods destroyed sawmills, gins and businesses, and the cattle drives ended. Not until 1920 did local ranchers organize cooperative storage and marketing of wool and mohair, and until the San Antonio highway was built in 1936 Bandera stayed hard to reach. The town incorporated in 1964. A Medina River flood in 1978 took many lives, and ten years later officials proposed making most of the floodplain inside the city open parkland.

What the plaque says

Clark Family Cemetery Located on the original homestead of Bandera County pioneer Amasa Clark (1825-1927), this small cemetery contains the graves of several generations of the Clark family. The first recorded burial was that of Clark's first wife, Eliza Jane, in 1883. A veteran of the Mexican War and the first permanent settler of Bandera, Amasa Clark operated an orchard and nursery at this site for many years. He lived to age 101. His grave is located here along with those of his first wife, Eliza; his second wife, Lucy; and a number of his nineteen children. (1990)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Frontier Times Museum — 3.3 mi
  A museum built of fossils, petrified wood and cave formations in Bandera, holding a printer-historian's collection of frontier relics and oddities.
• Treue der Union Monument — 21 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Schreiner Mansion — 22 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.

More markers nearby

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• Old Texas Ranger Trail — 3.2 mi
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• Camp Montel, C.S.A. — 3.2 mi