Six Mile Cemetery

The Civil War veterans buried here came from a thin frontier county. The 1860 census counted 1,101 people in Llano County, among them 21 slaveholders and 54 enslaved people. A company of 100 county volunteers went to Camp Terry in February 1862 and later joined Walker's Texas Division on the Red River; they were among the forces at Fort DeRussy when it fell. At home, raiders took horses through and after the war, and five members of the Friend family were killed in 1867. Partly because of the war, the county grew slowly in the 1860s.

What the plaque says

Six Mile Cemetery has served residents of Six Mile since the early 1880s. William A. and Jane E. Stephens, early residents of this farming and ranching community, donated land for a burial ground in 1883. The earliest marked grave is that of Charles Oscar Turner, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Munn Turner, who died in December 1883 at five months of age. Also interred here are veterans of the Civil War, frontier battles with Native Americans, World War I, and World War II. The cemetery has been maintained by a cemetery association since 1987. (1991)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Llano County Courthouse Square — 8.3 mi
  The 1893 Romanesque courthouse on Llano's square, built after a fire at the height of a boom that was meant to make the granite town an iron city.
• Enchanted Rock State Natural Area — 12 mi
  A dome of pink granite north of Fredericksburg that rises some 385 feet above Sandy Creek, creaks as it cools at night, and has drawn people for thousands of years.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 24 mi
  A free federal hatchery below Inks Dam on the Colorado, with thirty production ponds that draw birds and a look at how fish are raised from egg to harvest.
• Inks Lake State Park — 25 mi
  A state park on a constant-level lake of the Colorado, between Buchanan and Inks dams, with pink granite and gneiss at the water and CCC work along Park Road 4.

More markers nearby

• Six Mile School — 0.2 mi
• Oxford Cemetery — 6.2 mi
• St. James Lutheran Church — 8.0 mi
• O'Henry School Building — 8.0 mi