Cemeteries
We've listed as many sources as we can because, in the end, the COMMENTS that other people have made can make all the difference in the world when you're looking for a missing family member's grave.
| Name / Title | Information - Remarks |
|---|---|
| ON THIS SITE | |
| Olivewood Cemetery, partial | Submitted by Leigh Anne Roye. Recorded and transcribed by her son Chad for his Eagle project that was done in May 2010. "...We would like to send it to you, so people could view it on USGENWEB..." Copyright 2010 Chad Roye All Rights Reserved |
| Westcott Cemetery, partial | This cemetery information was recorded on February 17, 2000 by Woody & Lou Ann Lunsford. |
| OFF-SITE | |
| USGenWeb Project Archives | Our collection contains burial information on about 50 cemeteries and photos of about 40. |
| Harris County Cemeteries | The USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project |
| Cemeteries of Texas | Another very old list of burial sites and graves. Some of it is still being updated. |
| The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) | Courthouse Plaza II, Suite 500, 2300 Clarendon Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201. |
| Find a Grave | This site started as one man's hobby of photographing famous persons' graves and has become the largest database of burials anywhere. If you don't find what you're seeking on this site, the grave is probably unmarked or lost. Famous Graves in Texas |
| Nationwide Veteran Gravesite Locator | The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' page will search Houston National Cemetery, Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery, Dallas-Ft. Worth National Cemetery, Ft. Bliss National Cemetery, Ft. Clark Post National Cemetery, Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery, Kerrville National Cemetery, Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery, San Antonio National Cemetery, and veterans cemeteries for other states. |
| Billion Graves | BillionGraves is the world's largest resource for searchable GPS cemetery data, and is growing bigger and better every day. You can help by collecting headstone images from local and other cemeteries, and then by transcribing the personal information found on the images. |
| Directory of Harris County Cemeteries | Excerpted, with permission, from a publication At Rest: A Historical Directory of Harris County, Texas, Cemeteries (1822-2001) Including Burial Customs and Other Interesting Facts, With a Listing of Past and Present Communities, Funeral Home and Monument Companies. 2nd Edition enlarged from 307 to 509 cross-indexed listings. Compiled by Trevia Wooster Beverly (Tejas Publications & Research, Houston, 2001). |
| Burial Sites of Harris County, Texas | Thanks to Trevia Wooster Beverly for all her hard work in helping to preserve and commemorate Texas' cemeteries, for her outstanding compilation of Harris County Cemeteries and for her permission to use the information from that work without all of which this site would not have been possible. |
| Interment.net | Another commercial burial website with a lot of advertising but some great information. |
| The Political Graveyard, Harris County, Texas | - by Lawrence Kestenbaum, 1996-2005. This web site is about U.S. political history and cemeteries. For convenient presentation of this material, the site includes a page for each of the more than 3,000 counties in the U.S., as well as for various U.S. and foreign territories and countries. The Political Graveyard has ... read more... |
| Historical Cemeteries in Texas | Texas Historical Commission. Cemeteries are like open history books whose pages are tablets of stone. Historians consult cemetery records to confirm past events. Sometimes there is no other recorded information about an area except what can be found in cemeteries ... |