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Johnson City Masonic CemeteryEst. 1892 · Historic Texas Cemetery

Photographs

The ground through the seasons

Bluebonnets in April, live-oak shade in August, wreaths in December. A growing collection — and a request.

The cemetery entrance from Nugent Avenue: two cream stone pillars carrying the iron arch that reads CEMETERY under the Square and Compasses, with the 609 address sign and the historic section beyond.
The entrance at 609 N. Nugent Avenue, after a summer rain.
The Historic Texas Cemetery plaque under a live oak: the Texas Historical Commission seal above the marker text describing the 1892 purchase.
The Texas Historical Commission marker, dedicated 2002.
The Historic Texas Cemetery marker beneath a spreading live oak, curbed lots of the historic section behind.
The state marker under the live oak, at the edge of the 1894 section.
The gravel lane into the historic section, passing under a low, spreading live-oak limb, with rows of older headstones on either side under a blue autumn sky.
Under the live oak at the entrance to the historic section, autumn.
Bluebonnets in spring bloom among granite headstones in the historic section, with the Cleo Smith (1892–1949) marker at center.
Bluebonnets among the stones of the historic section, spring.
The United States and Texas flags flying from the flagpole against a sky of high summer clouds, live oaks below.
The flags on the Casparis section flagpole.
Looking down the gravel lane from beside the marker and the live oak, historic section on the left.
From the marker, looking down the lane.
The entry lane in high summer, with crape myrtles in pink bloom on the left and the curbed lots of the historic section on both sides.
Crape myrtles along the lane, July.
Nine volunteers at the flagpole holding balsam wreaths and a Wreaths Across America sign, with the ceremonial service wreaths laid out on the ground before them.
Volunteers at the flagpole on Wreaths Across America Day.
A granite Department of the Army headstone for David Hugh Woods with a balsam wreath and red bow laid against it and a small American flag.
A veteran's grave on Wreaths Across America Day.
The Straub family monument, a rough-hewn limestone slab carved with a cross, a saddled horse, and a cowboy, with a stone chair beside it and the fence line and pasture beyond.
The Straub monument, carved in native limestone.
The freshly graveled lane through the historic section in autumn light, older upright stones in the grass on both sides under live oaks.
The lane through the historic section after regraveling.
The Woods family headstone, William H. (1918–1982) and Lucille, with blue poinsettias in the vase before it.
Blue poinsettias at Christmas.
A balsam wreath with a red bow, a small American flag, a Marine Corps flag, and a wooden star.
A Marine's wreath, December.

Photograph wanted

The marble monument to Hattie Casparis Sharp in the Casparis section.

Awaiting photograph: the “Miss Hattie” monument.

Photograph wanted

The granite columbarium and memorial benches.

Awaiting photograph: the columbarium.

A request

Do you have photographs of the cemetery?

We are looking for photographs of any age: funerals and Decoration Days from the family album, the arch before it was painted, the Casparis monument when it was new, stones that have since weathered past reading. Originals stay with you; we only need a scan or a phone picture, and we will credit you on this page.

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