Details for Old Town Cemetery
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5057003825
Data
| Marker Number | 3825 |
| Atlas Number | 5057003825 |
| Marker Title | Old Town Cemetery |
| Index Entry | Old Town Cemetery |
| Address | |
| City | Indianola |
| County | Calhoun |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 743388 |
| UTM Northing | 3160094 |
| Subject Codes | cemetery; German immigrants/immigration |
| Marker Year | 1986 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | from Port Lavaca, take FM 238 s/SW about 3 mile then follow FM 316 S about 8.5 mile go North 1 mile on County Road to Old Town Cemetery |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | Located on the elevated ridge at Indianola Beach, this cemetery is one of three that served the port of Indianola during the 19th century. The oldest existing grave marker, that of James Chilton Allan, bears a date of 1851. Also buried here are some of Calhoun County's earliest settlers, who came in the first wave of German immigration to Texas in the 1840s. Many of the original tombstones, including that of Angelina Eberly (d. 1860), heroine of the Texas Archives War, have disappeared over time because of storms and vandalism. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836- 1986. |