Details for Bosqueville Cemetery
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5309000467
Data
| Marker Number | 467 |
| Atlas Number | 5309000467 |
| Marker Title | Bosqueville Cemetery |
| Index Entry | Bosqueville Cemetery |
| Address | Rock Creek Rd. |
| City | Waco |
| County | McLennan |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 670952 |
| UTM Northing | 3499026 |
| Subject Codes | cemetery; communities; schools; churches; African American topics; Texas Revolution; Civil War |
| Marker Year | 1979 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Bosqueville Cemetery, Bosqueville community, Rock Creek Rd., E side 0.3 mi. N of Steinbeck Bend Dr. (FM 3051). Marker is near entrance. |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | Burials began here as early as 1850 on 10 acres given by Little Berry White for a school and cemetery. A log schoolhouse at this site in 1853-54 served the Methodist and Baptist Churches as a meeting place. Some of the unmarked graves were those of slaves. The first marked graves, dated 1856, were those of David Smith Kornegay, a veteran of San Jacinto, and his mother-in-law, Bridget Lamb McGary. Another San Jacinto soldier, Alexander McKinza, and thirty-one veterans of the confederate army are buried here. In 1908, heirs of Dr. N.J.W. Wortham gave 1.5 acres. (1979) |