Six Mile Cemetery
Llano, Llano County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Six Mile Cemetery has served residents of Six Mile since the early 1880s. William A. and Jane E. Stephens, early residents of this farming and ranching community, donated land for a burial ground in 1883. The earliest marked grave is that of Charles Oscar Turner, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Munn Turner, who died in December 1883 at five months of age. Also interred here are veterans of the Civil War, frontier battles with Native Americans, World War I, and World War II. The cemetery has been maintained by a cemetery association since 1987.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Six Mile Cemetery has served this farming and ranching community since the early 1880s, on land donated by early residents in 1883. The earliest marked grave belongs to an infant who died that December, and the ground has since gathered generations of area families. Among those buried here are veterans of the Civil War, frontier battles with Native Americans, and both World Wars.
Why it matters
The graves here, spanning frontier Indian conflicts through the World Wars, trace the full sweep of a rural Texas community's history and its people's repeated service in the nation's wars.
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Related people
- · William A. Stephens
- · Jane E. Stephens
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