Winchester Cemetery

The Ingram Prairie families buried here took their name from John Ingram, who settled the area in 1827 and whose grant on the Colorado River is still known as Ingram's Prairie. The town of Winchester, named for Winchester, Tennessee, was platted in 1857 by John Gromme on land first granted to E. Campbell and J. F. Berry in 1831. A post office came in 1866, and by 1900 the town had eighteen businesses and shipped for a wide farming area on the railroad. Better roads and the decline of cotton brought it down to fifty people by the 1980s.

What the plaque says

Winchester Cemetery In use as burial ground since site gift in 1971 by Col. Nathan Thomas (1909-81), former Republic of Texas congressman, member of the legislature, civic leader. Many Ingram Prairie pioneer families are interred her. Cemetery association was organized in 1881, with 44 members. (1971)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas Wendish Heritage Museum — 7.6 mi
  A museum at Serbin of the Wends, a Slavic people from Lusatia whose congregation of nearly 600 crossed on the Ben Nevis in 1854, losing seventy-three to cholera on the way.
• Bastrop State Park — 18 mi
  The westernmost loblolly pines in the United States, cut off from the East Texas forest by a hundred miles of post oak, burned almost entirely in 2011 and growing back.
• Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway — 25 mi
  Two park units on an 11,000-acre lake between Austin and College Station, joined by a thirteen-mile trailway for hikers, cyclists and riders with primitive camps along the way.

More markers nearby

• Site of Wood's Fort — 5.6 mi
• Rabb's Prairie — 8.2 mi
• Smithville — 9.1 mi
• Grassyville Cemetery — 10 mi