| Address: Moore St and Hwy. 51 North | |
| Directions: Moore Street and Hwy. 51 North. Marker will be placed at the Moore Street entrance. | |
| Marker #: 5221012838 | |
| Year Dedicated: 2001 | |
| Size, type: Historic Texas Cemetery | |
| Last reported condition: No report | |
| Granbury Cemetery - Granbury Cemetery Part of an original school land survey, this parcel was already known as "the cemetery lot" when deeded to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1885 for use as a public burial ground. A number of the stones here pre-date the 1866 founding of the city of Granbury, the earliest being that of John Edwards (1790-1853). Graves reportedly moved to this site from the Methodist churchyard on the courthouse square make it difficult to know whether some burials were original to the site or were reinterrments. In 1873, church leaders chose this hill as the location for a high school that became Granbury College in 1887. Following its closing, trustees deeded the school land to the city in 1915, allowing for College Hill's full usage as a cemetery. At rest here is War of 1812 veteran John Bennett Dickson (1793-1876), who was wounded in the Battle of New Orleans. He is joined by other veterans from the U.S.-Mexico War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Brigadier General Hiram B. Granbury (1831-1864), the city's namesake, was reinterred here in 1893; his surname is also recorded as Granberry. This cemetery chronicles the pioneers and generations of families who are the Granbury area's rich heritage. Historic Texas Cemetery-2001 | |
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Decimal degrees: N 32.451007 W -97.785528
Degrees, minutes: N 32 27.060 W 097 47.132 UTM: Zone 14, Easting 614152, Northing 3591077 |
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