Oak Hill Cemetery
Lampasas, Lampasas County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Hartwell Fountain sold ten acres of land to the City of Lampasas in 1872 to establish this cemetery. Originally known as City Cemetery, it was renamed Oak Hill Cemetery in 1908. The Ladies Cemetery Association, a group of concerned Lampasas women, maintained the cemetery from 1891 to 1948, when the city assumed responsibility. Among those buried here are local pioneers, prominent business people, veterans of wars including the Texas Revolution and the Civil War, and their descendants.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Hartwell Fountain sold ten acres to the City of Lampasas in 1872 to create what was first called City Cemetery, renamed Oak Hill in 1908. For more than half a century the ground was tended by the Ladies Cemetery Association, a group of local women who cared for it from 1891 until the city took over in 1948. Buried here are pioneers, prominent citizens, and veterans reaching back through the Civil War to the Texas Revolution.
Why it matters
Oak Hill preserves the founding generations of central Texas and stands as a monument to the women whose volunteer labor sustained community memory for decades.
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