Hall Cemetery

Hall and Watts were two communities joined by marriage. The John Hall household moved into the area around 1860, and newcomers followed soon after the Civil War. J. R. Bishop set aside two acres on the John Hall survey for a school and a cemetery. Marriages over many years tied Hall closely to the nearby Watts community. In 1960 a large tabernacle was built beside the cemetery, and the Hall Cemetery Association still holds its regular meetings there.

What the plaque says

Hall Cemetery The Hall community in this area was named for pioneer settlers John and Sarah Hall who moved here about 1860 from Mississippi. A rural settlement gradually built up in the area, and in 1882 landowner J. R. Bishop deeded two acres to the community for a school. Part of the land contained grave sites, so one acre was set aside for a community cemetery. The oldest documented burial is that of the unnamed infant son of W. J. and Louisa Williams, who died at birth on June 21, 1873. the cemetery also served the nearby Wattsville community. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Palmetto State Park — 10 mi
  Dwarf palmettos, bogs and a spring-fed oxbow on the San Marcos River, with CCC stonework from the 1930s, a swamp an hour from Austin and San Antonio.
• Lockhart Courthouse Square — 12 mi
  A cotton-era courthouse town named the Barbecue Capital of Texas, built near the 1840 Plum Creek fight that followed the killing of Comanche leaders at peace talks.
• Gonzales Memorial Museum — 18 mi
  A 1937 Centennial museum for the Immortal Thirty-two who died at the Alamo, holding the small iron cannon Gonzales calls its Come and Take It gun and the Handbook calls a second one.
• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 25 mi
  The headsprings of the San Marcos River, among the longest-inhabited places in North America, once an amusement park with a swimming pig and now seen from glass-bottom boats.

More markers nearby

• McNeil Cemetery — 3.6 mi
• Clearfork Baptist Church — 4.0 mi
• Theodore S. Lee — 5.6 mi
• Harwood Cemetery — 5.7 mi