The Marschall-Meusebach Cemetery

Meusebach's 1845 contract with the Adelsverein promised $2,000 for scientific equipment, a salary of $790 a year, 2 percent of net profits, 500 acres and $5,000 if the society dissolved within five years. He landed at Galveston in early May 1845 and rode 165 miles to New Braunfels, working under his family motto, Tenax Propositi, or Steadfast in Purpose. After losing his first fiancée, Elisabeth von Hardenburg, to typhoid fever, he married seventeen-year-old Countess Agnes of Coreth on September 28, 1852. Seven of their eleven children reached adulthood.

What the plaque says

The Marschall-Meusebach Cemetery Members of the families of two former German noblemen, related by marriage, are buried in this cemetery. John O. Meusebach (1812-97), who came to the Republic of Texas in 1845 as leader of the German Emigration Company, established (1846) the town of fredericksburg and signed (1847) an historic peace treaty with the Comanche Indians. Wilhelm Marschall Von Bierberstein (1822-1902) settled in this community in 1848. First burial here was that of Marschall's sister-in-law, Mathilda Weiss (1824-91). (1976)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Enchanted Rock State Natural Area — 11 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.
• Vereins Kirche and Main Street — 16 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.
• National Museum of the Pacific War — 16 mi
  A museum of the war in the Pacific in Chester Nimitz's hometown, dedicated at his request to the two million who served with him, with a garden given by Japan.
• Fort Martin Scott — 19 mi
  An army post of 1848 on Barons Creek beside the German town, where soldiers kept the peace of a Comanche trade and paid the merchants in hard cash.

More markers nearby

• Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi
• Old Cherry Spring School (Das Alte Schulhaus) — 1.0 mi
• Squaw Creek Cemetery — 4.6 mi
• Herman and Willie Lehmann — 6.4 mi