Cementerio Navarro Historico

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Marker No: 14331 & Medallion 13479

Texas Historical Cemetery Marker & Texas Historical Cemetery Medallion 

Geographic: 29.89120,  -97.67400

Location: Mulberry St, around about the 100 block, Lockhart

Marker Text: ​Also known as the Mexican Cemetery, this burial ground has served the Mexican-American community of Lockhart since around 1900. The earliest dated burial here, of area settler Severiano Sanchez, dates to 1901. Since that time, the cemetery has served primarily Hispanic and Roman Catholic residents.
   A number of community leaders are interred here. Others, including business owners, farmers, laborers, ranchers, teachers and veterans of foreign conflicts dating to World War I, are also buried here. Several graves are marked by Woodmen of the World monuments, which led to the burial ground also being known as the Woodmen of the World cemetery or Panteón de los Hacheros. Other features in the cemetery include vertical stones, plot curbing and grave slabs.
​    In 2005, descendants of the interred formed the Cementerio Navarro Association to restore and maintain the burial ground. The association named this site Cementerio Navarro Histórico after the noted Tejano statesman and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, José Antonio Navarro. The cemetery is also near the site of the Old Navarro Elementary School, which was known historically as the Mexican School. Today, Cementerio Navarro Histórico continues to serve descendants of those buried here. It remains a chronicle of the Mexican-American pioneers of Caldwell County and a testament to the difficult and laborious circumstances under which they settled and thrived. (2005) 

Established 1901 (2001)