Hartsville Cemetery
Wallis, Austin County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Hartsville Cemetery Established 1899 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2006
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Established in 1899, Hartsville Cemetery serves a community near Wallis in Austin County at the close of the 19th century. Designated a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2006, it preserves the graves of the farming families who settled this part of the Brazos bottomlands. Such burial grounds often survive as the clearest record of vanished rural hamlets.
Why it matters
Turn-of-the-century rural cemeteries document the settled agricultural communities that took shape across Texas in the Gilded Age.
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