Pecan Wells Cemetery
Historical Marker Text
A pioneer community named Lookout began to
develop in this area traversed by the Lampasas River and nearby Lookout
Mountain during the 1870s and 1880s. Lookout School opened about one
mile southeast of here in the late 1870s. This cemetery began with the
burial of Barnard and Maria Schmith Pfluger's infant son Heinrich K.
Pfluger in 1893. In 1904 Civil War veteran and early area settler W. M.
Kemp and his wife Margaret donated land here for cemetery purposes.
According to local traditional the Kemps conveyed the land under the
condition that grave sites continue to be available at no cost. In the
early 1900s Merrill Creek School was established about two miles west of
this site. Lookout and Merrill schools closed in 1921 and a new school
by the name of Pecan Wells was opened about one half mile west of the
cemetery. At that time the community and cemetery were renamed Pecan
Wells. Pecan Wells School closed in 1944 when it merged with the nearby
Pottsville School System. Maintained by an association of descendants of
people buried here, the cemetery contains more than 200 graves including
those of veterans of conflicts ranging from the Civil War to the Vietnam
War.
1995
location: from Hamilton take FM 2005 west
about 18 miles, marker is in front of cemetery on north side of FM 2005. |
