Nichols Cemetery

The town named for J. C. W. Ingram grew on land the state had granted to John Twohig in 1847; Ingram bought six acres in 1879 for his store and post office. Early settlers, mostly farmers, milled and ginned their crops at Sherman's Mill between Ingram and Hunt and made shingles from the plentiful cypress. Sheep, goats and cattle came later, then deer hunting and imported exotic game. From the 1920s the climate and river drew resort trade, and in 1958 the Hill Country Arts Foundation began at Ingram.

What the plaque says

Nichols Cemetery Born about 1805, Rowland Nichols settled in Kerr County where he served as county commissioner. Upon his death at the hands of Indians, Nichols was buried, as he wished, under a live oak tree on his farm on April 11, 1859. This site became a community burial ground and the burial place of many area pioneers, including J. C. W. Ingram (1829-1902), for whom the town of Ingram was named. Additional property was later purchased from Lafayette Nichols to enlarge the cemetery. For over a century Nichols Cemetery has served the residents of this part of Kerr County. (1982)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Schreiner Mansion — 4.8 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.
• Treue der Union Monument — 19 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Old Tunnel State Park — 24 mi
  A railroad tunnel abandoned in 1942 that now shelters up to three million Mexican free-tailed bats, who fly out each evening from May through October.
• Vereins Kirche and Main Street — 25 mi
  The octagonal Society Church on Fredericksburg's market square, rebuilt in stone in the 1930s, beside a main street laid out like a Rhine village.

More markers nearby

• Mary Ann Kent Byas Chambers Morriss — 0.2 mi
• Old Ingram — 1.7 mi
• Gatlin Site — 2.1 mi
• First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Kerrville — 2.2 mi