Dobyville Cemetery

Dobyville's Lone Star School opened in 1878, and by the mid-1880s the community had steam grist and syrup mills, a cotton gin and about thirty residents shipping cotton, livestock and grain. In the mid-1890s the school had one teacher and fifty-six pupils, and its building was the community center until it burned in 1911. The school joined Lake Victor's in 1921. The big event of the year was the spring rabbit drive, held on a Saturday in late March or early April, when families gathered for a day of hunting and picnicking.

What the plaque says

Dobyville Cemetery The Dobyville Cemetery is the last visible renmant of the community of Dobyville, settled in the 1850s, and named for the town's location on a white adobe rock hill. The cemetery contains more than 230 marked graves; between 60 and 70 graves are unmarked and believed to be infants. The earliest documented grave was for Mary E. Standefer (1833-1857), daughter of Hugh and Ana Lawhon. Many of the area's early pioneers are buried here, along with former elected officials of local and state governement, and veterans of several wars. The cemetery continues to serve the area. (1996)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hancock Springs Park — 9.2 mi
  Lampasas's city park on Sulphur Creek, with a spring-fed swimming pool that holds about 69 degrees all year, the walls of the old bathhouse and a golf course.
• Inks Lake State Park — 15 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.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 17 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.

More markers nearby

• Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Wolf — steps away
• Lake Victor Lodge No. 1011, A. F. & A. M. — 3.1 mi
• Naruna Baptist Church — 6.2 mi
• Bethel Cemetery — 6.8 mi