Cedarvale Cemetery

Cedarvale Cemetery traces its history to 1896, when Rufus A. Mathis was killed in a hunting accident and buried on land owned by D.P. Moore. At the time of Mathis's death, he and other community leaders were in the process of establishing a cemetery for the community. Moore officially deeded four acres of land for a cemetery on March 14, 1896. By 1906 the Cedarvale Cemetery Association had been established to care for the cemetery, and later purchases enlarged the burial grounds. Many of Bay City's early settlers are buried there.

Bay City, Texas · United States