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Marker No: 10308

Aluminum 27 x 42 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.169647,-98.086899

Location: take RR 12 south approximately 2 miles to cemetery at intersection with FM 150

Marker Text: ​Early settlers John and Nancy Phillips deeded land at this site to the Methodist Episcopal Church, south, in 1880. A small church was built and was dedicated on March 13, 1880 as was customary, members of the community were buried near the church. 
         The earliest documented burial is that of B.G. Sorrell who died on March 13, 1880 among the graves here are those of numerous early settlers to the Dripping Springs area and sixteen Civil War Veterans.
         In 1901  land for a new church building was acquired on the Old San Marcos Road (now Ranch Road 12), the original Methodist Church building was sold and moved, leaving this site to be used solely for the cemetery. Families cared for individual graves, while members of the community maintained the cemetery, in the early 1920s the local  blacksmith, William S. Garnett, ordered caskets and assisted with funeral arrangements.
        The Methodist Church donated the cemetery property to the community in 1940, and in 1962 a cemetery association was formed to maintain the historical graveyard. Phillips Cemetery as it was known locally became the official name of the burial ground in 1963. (1991)