Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery

The congregation that keeps this cemetery was displaced by the Army. When farms and communities around Killeen were vacated for the military reservation in the early 1940s, the church moved in 1943 to Fourth and Rancier in town, on the bus route from the post, since soldiers had no cars. It shared a pastor with another congregation until its first full-time pastor in 1946 and dedicated a larger sanctuary on North Fourth Street in 1957. The original church stood on the site of this cemetery on Old FM 440.

What the plaque says

Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery The first burial in this graveyard, that of Wilhelm Wolf, took place in 1891, two years after the German Evangelical Lutheran Emmanuel Congregation was formally organized. The Rev. H.F. Daude (1850-1924), who served as first pastor, deeded land here in 1893 for the church, school, and cemetery. Members of the congregation, now known as Immanuel Lutheran, continue to use the graveyard, although the church relocated to another site in the early 1940s. The German language appears on many of the tombstones reflecting a part of the area's German heritage. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mother Neff State Park — 24 mi
  A Leon River park that grew from six acres Isabella Neff left the state in her 1921 will, where Civilian Conservation Corps Company 817 built a stone tower, a pavilion and roads in the 1930s.
• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 24 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.
• Hancock Springs Park — 25 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.

More markers nearby

• Killeen Herald — 1.0 mi
• Oveta Culp Hobby and the Women's Army Corps — 2.1 mi
• Santa Fe Depot — 2.2 mi
• City of Killeen — 2.3 mi