Old Lebanon Cemetery

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Marker Text: ​In 1855, Virginia native David H. Williams and Alabama native William E. Anderson bought more than 400 acres of the W. Nelson Survey. Anderson later donated one acre for this cemetery and a church. The first documented burial is that of Woodson Hines Williams (d. 1858), whose father, Robert Knight Williams (d. 1862), sister, Elizabeth Jane Williams Baze (d. 1867), and mother, Mary Jane Tapscott Williams (d. 1871), were the next to be interred here. Evidence of many unmarked graves indicates burials that might predate those of the Williams family.
      By 1860, a church house had been built on this site in 1872, a four-acre tract here was sold by W.E. Anderson and C.A. Spivey to the Methodist Episcopal Church, south, and members built a new sanctuary and schoolhouse for the Lebanon community. Named for the cedars of Lebanon mentioned in the bible. Early on, residents fenced the cemetery to protect it from cattle. A cemetery association formed in the 1990s to clean and protect the graveyard, where veterans and early settlers and their descendants are buried. The history and heritage of Lebanon is chronicled in the numerous stones and markers of the open prairie cemetery. (2003) 

Marker No: 15203

Texas Historical Cemetery Marker 

Geographic: ​31.79080, -97.29280

Location: ​Approximately 8 miles west of Aquilla on CR 1304 to cemetery sign, left across field about .5 mile off CR 1304