Mager Cemetery

Mager Cemetery lies south of Beyersville, which the Handbook of Texas says began after the Civil War as Dacus, or Dacus Crossing, and took its present name in 1893 when Gustav Beyer opened a post office. The hall of the Order of Sons of Hermann was its social center. That German benefit society began in New York in 1840, was founded in Texas at San Antonio on July 6, 1861, and became independent of the national order in 1920. By 1986 Beyersville also had a Czech fraternal hall, and the community had moved a mile south.

What the plaque says

Mager Cemetery Reinhold Mager (1863-1930), a native of Brandenburg, Germany, came to Texas and married Franziska Krueger (1868-1951), a native of the Dessau community in nearby Travis County, Texas. The Magers donated one acre of their 150 acres of land here in Williamson County for this cemetery and a school. The first known burial, that of Albert C. Mager, took place in 1900. Many of the tombstones bear inscriptions in German, and 14 mark the graves of infants. Burials in the cemetery ceased after the interment of Franziska Mager in 1951. The 55 known grave sites are testament to the area's 20th-century German heritage. (2000)

Where it stands

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