Manor Cemetery
Manor, Travis County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Tennessee native James Manor, who came to Texas in the early 1830s, helped settle this area. A town named for him developled here during the 1840s. A Methodist congregation was organized in 1854 and in 1861 a Union church building was erected at this site. According to local tradition E.D. Townes, father of noted university of Texas Law School Dean and Judge John C. Townes, was among several people buried here in the 1860s. James Manor deeded the land to the community of Manor for church and cemetery purposes in 1871. The burial of Judge Williumson Jones in 1875 is the first recorded after Manor's legal donation of the land. The Methodists built a new sanctuary nearby in 1881. Manor Cemetery contains many of the area's pioneer settlers and their descendants. Among the more than one thousand people buried here are town founder James Manor (d. 1881); T.B. Wheeler, Lt. Governor of Texas from 1887 to 1891; members of fraternal organizations such as the Masons and Woodmen of the World; and veterans of the Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. The cemetery contains a separate Hispanic/Catholic section and is maintained by an association of descendands of people buried here. (1995)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Tennessee-born James Manor reached Texas in the early 1830s and helped settle the area that took his name, where a town grew up in the 1840s and a Methodist congregation organized in 1854. Manor deeded the land for a church and cemetery in 1871, and the graveyard now holds more than a thousand people, including Manor himself, Lt. Governor T.B. Wheeler, and veterans of conflicts from the Civil War to Vietnam. A separate Hispanic and Catholic section reflects the community's mix of settlers.
Why it matters
Manor Cemetery gathers a full cross-section of a Central Texas town's history — its founder, its officeholders, its immigrant and Catholic families, and its war dead — in one enduring pioneer landscape.
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Related people
- · James Manor
- · T.B. Wheeler
- · E.D. Townes
- · Judge Williamson Jones
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