Knupple Cemetery
Silsbee, Hardin County, Texas
Marker Inscription
August Knupple, a Prussian who came to Texas in 1846 to farm, established this cemetery on his property around 1870. The earliest marked grave, dating to 1871, is for Henry Robinson, although the burial ground may have begun earlier as a family graveyard. Knupple Cemetery contains at least 16 graves dating to the 19th century, and features grave slabs and Woodmen of the World gravestones. The interred include veterans of conflicts dating to the Civil War. By the 1930’s relatives and volunteers began to maintain the property. Today, the Knupple Cemetery Association continues to care for this burial ground, which remains as a record of the pioneering Knupple Family and generations of area residents. Historic Texas Cemetery-2008
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
August Knupple, a Prussian immigrant who came to Texas in 1846 to farm, established this cemetery on his land around 1870, though the earliest marked grave dates to 1871. Its stones — including Woodmen of the World markers and the graves of Civil War veterans — record at least sixteen nineteenth-century burials. Since the 1930s, family, volunteers, and a cemetery association have kept watch over the resting place of the pioneering Knupple family and their neighbors.
Why it matters
The cemetery preserves the memory of a German immigrant farming family whose graves anchor the settlement history of their corner of East Texas.
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