Sunset Cemetery

Mountain Home, the community H. L. Nelson named, was settled about 1856, and Nelson established its post office in 1879. For a short time early in the twentieth century the town was called Eura. It had 150 people in 1946; in 1983 about sixty lived within a mile of the post office, which served 350 families, and the town had a store, a motel and a church. Ranching has always been the main business. Mountain Home is also home to the Texas Fisheries Research Station, the Texas Catholic Boys Camp and the Hill Country Cowboy Camp Meeting.

What the plaque says

Sunset Cemetery The earliest marked graves in this cemetery are those of James and Susan Dowdy's four children. They were killed by Indians in 1878, soon after the family migrated from Goliad. However, local tradition says the first interment in that of M. B. Shults. Plain stones mark burial sites of four Byas children who died in the 1880s typhoid epidemic. Early pioneer H. L. Nelson (1835-1922), who established Mountain Home Post Office, is buried here. Land for this 4-acre cemetery has been acquired from the A. E. Oehler heirs, M. D. Henderson, and Sunset School when it closed in 1953. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Schreiner Mansion — 15 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.
• Lost Maples State Natural Area — 27 mi
  A canyon of the upper Sabinal where a relict stand of bigtooth maples turns color each autumn, a sight that drew crowds up a gravel road long before there was a park.
• Treue der Union Monument — 29 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.
• Kimble County Historical Museum — 35 mi
  A free county museum in Junction, the town at the meeting of the North and South Llano, with the papers, photographs and tools of a ranching county.

More markers nearby

• The Dowdy Tragedy of 1878 — 0.6 mi
• Hunt Japonica Cemetery — 5.4 mi
• Education in Hunt — 6.0 mi
• Site of Reservation School — 6.0 mi