Willowhole Cemetery

Willow Hole was a town before it was a graveyard. About 1850 Julius Zulch, a German immigrant, built a log store near a watering hole on the trail from Midway to Boonville, a long-used camp. A post office called Willow Hole opened in 1859. In the late 1870s Zulch lent passage money to farmers in Germany, and many from Posen came, working as tenants until they could buy land. His Lutheran school doubled as a church until 1893. After the railroad bypassed the town in 1906, it became Zulch, and most residents moved to North Zulch.

What the plaque says

Willowhole Cemetery This community was settled in the 1850s and named for a nearby spring-fed hollow. The cemetery served as a community graveyard for the town, which until the early 1900s contained businesses, schools, and churches. The first recorded burial here was that of Mary J. Burts in 1866. A cemetery association was founded in 1917 about the time annual July 4th picnics began. In 1977 a fund for perpetual maintenance was established. Among the more than 2600 people buried here are pioneers of the area and their descendants and veterans of conflicts from the Civil War to Vietnam. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Boggy State Park — 22 mi
  A 1,847-acre park in Leon County named for a settlers' palisade of 1840, with a 15-acre lake, short trails and the story of Tennessee farmers, the Keechi and a Ranger captain.
• George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum — 25 mi
  The library of the forty-first president on the Texas A&M campus, opened in 1997, where George and Barbara Bush and their daughter Robin are buried in a family plot on the grounds.

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