Eureka Cemetery

Eureka was a community before it was a graveyard, and the railroad ended it. A county historical commission history says the school stood across the road and the cemetery served the settlement until most residents moved east to Blanket in the mid-1890s, after the line from Fort Worth reached Brownwood. Another account of the name Blanket has surveyors in 1852 finding a Tonkawa band whose blankets were spread over sumac bushes in a downpour. Descendants of local families placed the marker in 1995.

What the plaque says

Eureka Cemetery According to local tradition the settlers who established the town of Blanket (2 miles east) about 1870 named it for a Native American blanket they found on the banks of a nearby creek. The earliest marked grave in this cemetery, which served the rural community of Blanket, is that of Luperda Cox who died in 1876. The cemetery contains many of the area's earliest settlers and their descendants, including several teachers of the former Eureka School which was located just across the road from this site. The cemetery remains active and continues to serve the area. (1995)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Brownwood State Park — 12 mi
  A CCC park on a reservoir that filled in a single flood before its dam was done, with stone cabins, a hilltop dance pavilion and a grand staircase climbed by dancers arriving by boat.

More markers nearby

• Blanket — 2.4 mi
• William Franklin Brown — 6.1 mi
• Walter U. Early — 8.5 mi
• Zephyr Presbyterian Church — 9.6 mi