Evers Family Cemetery

The Evers farm now lies in one of San Antonio's busiest districts. The plot sits in the South Texas Medical Center, about 900 acres of hospitals and schools on the city's northwest side. The center serves thirty-eight counties and holds forty-five medical institutions, among them the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and its teaching hospital, University Hospital. In 2009 more than 27,000 people worked there, making it the area's second largest employer, around a family graveyard begun on a farm in 1877.

What the plaque says

Evers Family Cemetery Claus (1817-1900) and Johanna (1818-1905) Evers and their children Christian (1847-1915) and Christina (1850-1914) came to Texas from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in 1855. They moved here in 1874. This cemetery began on their farm in 1877, when a woman traveling through the area became ill and died at the Evers home. The first family member buried here was Anna Wehmeyer, infant child of the Evers' daughter Christina Evers Wehmeyer Braendle. Several generations of Evers and Braendle descendants are buried here. The cemetery stands as a reminder of the area's pioneer heritage. (1990)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spanish Governor's Palace — 8.7 mi
  The last visible piece of the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar: a presidio captain's house with a 1749 keystone, a century as shops and saloons, and a romantic 1930 restoration.
• Casa Navarro State Historic Site — 8.8 mi
  The adobe and caliche-block home of José Antonio Navarro, a native-born signer of the 1836 declaration, and the last remnant of the Tejano neighborhood called Laredito.
• San Fernando Cathedral — 8.8 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.
• The Alamo — 9.2 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.

More markers nearby

• Huebner-Onion Homestead and Stagecoach Stop — 0.5 mi
• Texas' First All-Spanish Radio Program — 4.5 mi
• Lockhill School — 4.8 mi
• Zion Lutheran Church and Cemetery — 5.0 mi