​Columbus
​Old City Cemetery

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Marker No: 985

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 29.705385, -96.552444

Marker Text: ​Date of earliest burial is not known; oldest headstone, 1853. Site (7A) was deeded to the city in 1870 as an existent graveyard.
 Burials here included Benjamin Beason, one of Austin's "Old 300" colonists; W.D. DeWees, also in "Old 300", founder of Columbus; 1830s historian Dilue Rose and husband Sheriff Ira Harris; Gen. Augustus Jones, War of 1812 and Texas War for Independence veteran; Dr. John G. Logue, known as founder of the first drugstore in Texas, 1845; The Rev. Jacob Scherer, founder, in 1857, of Colorado College; many Confederate soldiers; and victims of 1873 yellow fever epidemic. (1973) 

Location:  1300 Walnut Street, Columbus