Williams-Buck Cemetery

The plaque says fifteen graves came here from Bullion Cemetery when Lake Georgetown was formed. The Handbook of Texas says the Corps of Engineers began the dam on the North Fork of the San Gabriel River in 1972 and completed it in 1978, and that the reservoir was first called North Fork Lake. Its Georgetown entry says the lake opened officially on October 5, 1979, and ties the project to a search for flood control after the 1921 flood. The lake serves flood control, recreation and water supply for nearby towns.

What the plaque says

Williams-Buck Cemetery Legend surrounds the first years of this burial ground. Local oral history relates that among the earliest graves are those of a slave called Willie Osborne and an unknown Native American. Members of the Stephens family, ambushed by Indians in 1854, are said to have been buried here in their wagon. The oldest marked grave is that of infant Polly Williams, interred in 1854 on land owned by W. W. Williams. A cemetery association was organized in 1960s. Many honored veterans of Confederate and U. S. Armed Forces are interred here. Fifteen graves were moved from the Bullion Cemetery in the 1970s when Lake Georgetown was formed. More than 240 graves were counted in 1997. (1998)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge: Doeskin Ranch — 12 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.
• Williamson County Courthouse — 15 mi
  The fifth Williamson County courthouse, a Beaux Arts building by C. H. Page, rises over a Georgetown square of more than 50 Victorian-era buildings.
• Inner Space Cavern — 16 mi
  A Georgetown cave found in 1963 when highway engineers drilled test holes, holding Pleistocene fossils and 72-degree rooms that visitors reach by an artificial tunnel.
• The Round Rock — 20 mi
  A table-shaped stone in Brushy Creek gave Round Rock its name in 1854; the Chisholm Trail crossed the creek near it, and Old Town stayed behind when the railroad pulled the town east.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church of Liberty Hill — 4.2 mi
• Liberty Hill Cemetery — 4.2 mi
• Andice Baptist Church — 4.9 mi
• Site of Prairie Point Community — 4.9 mi