Chew Cemetery
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Marker No: 12033
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Geographic: 30.79712, -98.94938
Location: 8 miles north of Llano on CR 405 to CR 438
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Marker Text: Born in West Virginia in 1832, George Olivier Chew came to Texas in 1839. He married Nancy Taylor prior to 1870, and they settled in western Llano County in 1883, purchasing 320 acres of land . This site probably was first used as a family cemetery about 1885 when their infant granddaughter was interred here. The second marked burial was that of a 2-year-old grandson, Osceola Chew, in 1887. George Oliver Chew was interred here in 190. The Chew family continued to grow, operating a school and later a cotton gin. In 1927 they sold the land to another family, who donated back the one-acre cemetery twenty years later. There are more that 40 known graves in the Chew Cemetery. Both a Confederate and a Union soldier are interred here, as are veterans of other military conflicts. (1999)
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