​Live Oak Cemetery

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Marker No: 16137

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker 

Geographic: 30.127396,-97.817596

Location: 10739-10799 Twin Creeks Road, Manchaca

Marker Text: ​  The original four-acre section of this cemetery included land donated by James M. Turley (1856-83) and Andrew Jackson Hammett (1829-1907). The oldest grave is that of Turley's daughter, Tennessee Belle Hart, and her baby, who died on Aug. 27, 1874. A community church, erected near the burial ground in 1874; also housed a school from 1877 to about 1886. Pioneers in this area gathered each summer for a 10-day long camp meeting held under an adjacent brush arbor. Live Oak Cemetery was enlarged in 1948; when Herman Heep gave an additional 11.06 acres. The site contains about 1600 graves. (1976)