The Tobey Community Cemetery

The church and school the plaque mentions shared one plot. On March 26, 1875, the Tobeys and James Boyles deeded land to trustees of the Christian Church for a church and school, and in 1887 the Tobeys deeded it again to the schoolhouse trustees, on condition that the Church of Christ could use it for worship and teaching. By 1937 the congregation had stopped meeting, and its building was eventually torn down and moved to Marble Falls. The Tobey school was Burnet County district 17; it joined Fairland in 1937 and Marble Falls in 1944.

What the plaque says

The Tobey Community Cemetery The Nat Tobey family moved from Indiana to northeast Burnet County in the 1850s. Sons Avery and Samuel bought land here in Backbone Valley in 1868. At the death of N. W. Tobey, aged 12, this cemetery was opened in 1872. A church and school stood nearby, serving people of the ranches and farms of the valley. Within a century, over 200 graves were placed in this burial ground. In 1964 Tobey Cemetery Association was formed to care for the one remaining community landmark, since church and school were phased out in the 20th century. (1976)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Longhorn Cavern State Park — 3.2 mi
  A cave carved by an underground river in the Hill Country, cleared of mud by hand in the 1930s and reached down 52 stone steps on a guided tour.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 6.6 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 — 7.0 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.
• Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge: Doeskin Ranch — 15 mi
  A free federal refuge north of Lake Travis kept for two songbirds that need old juniper and oak, with trails at the Doeskin Ranch unit near Bertram.

More markers nearby

• Longhorn Caverns — 3.2 mi
• Granite Mountain — 3.9 mi
• Marble Falls School Building — 4.8 mi
• Hoover's Valley Cemetery — 5.3 mi