City Cemetery

On July 19, 1889, the Hallettsville town council addressed the poor condition of several small cemeteries in the city, and Mayor Fritz Lindenberg appointed Volney Ellis, W.H. Turk, and E.H. Mitchel to find suitable land for burials outside the city limits. In May 1890, city cemetery trustees bought 4.5 acres from Antonia Kuhn for a new city cemetery. The town's Odd Fellows Lodge and Catholic and Jewish citizens established graveyards on adjacent fields, and part of Clairborn and Martha Moore's land southwest of the city became an African American cemetery. Existing burials were reinterred at this location, sometimes called the Protestant Cemetery. The Old City Cemetery on South Dowling Street was renamed Memorial Park in 1952. With tombstones inscribed in Czech and German as well as English, the burial ground is a rich resource of the city's history. One notable burial is Confederate Maj. Gen. Arthur Pendleton Bagby (1833-1921). Over the years, the cemetery expanded by taking in the Odd Fellows' site in 1945 and additional acreage to the east in 1957, and it is managed by the City Cemetery Association of Hallettsville.

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