A group of Kerrville citizens established Glen Rest as a community cemetery near the Guadalupe River on October 15, 1894. S.H. Remschel sold a ten acre tract to directors A.C. Schreiner, H. Remschel, W.G. Garrett, B.H. Ross, and Ed Smallwood. Burials now number in the thousands, and some families have as many as five generations buried there. Prominent names with more than ten family members include Peterson, Dietert, Heimann, Rees, Moore, Schreiner, Butt, Garrett, and Leinweber. Some sources indicate that the low rock wall of native limestone, dating from the 1920s, uses materials from the demolished 1886 Kerr County Courthouse. Glen Rest Cemetery is the final resting place for many pioneer and historic families of Kerrville and the surrounding Hill Country.