Hutto Cemetery

In the late 1880s, T.A. Boatright buried a family child and her husband, E.B., here when the site was known as Elmwood Cemetery, and in 1889 she bought the land from C.P. and Julia Crews. Several graves already existed beyond those of her family, many of them unmarked, and today the earliest marked grave is that of Joseph Metcalfe, who died in 1887. Over time the property passed from the Boatrights to the Haygoods, and in 1950 Birdie Haygood Badger sold it to the newly formed Hutto Cemetery Association, after which the cemetery took the community's name. Records indicate that within its bounds are two lots once reserved for paupers and one lot associated with the Swedish church that evolved into Hutto's First Methodist Church. The cemetery reflects the community's history through grave-marker text identifying settlers from other states or countries, residents who belonged to fraternal organizations or served in the military as early as the Civil War, and children whose brief lives also formed part of the local past.

Hutto, Texas · United States