Note: Cemeteries with an asterisk (*) were visited and photographed.

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The following cemeteries, in alphabetical order, are located within Bastrop County in or near Elgin:

• Butler Brick Cemetery, Butler

• Coates Cemetery

• Coulson Cemetery

• Craddock Cemetery

• Davis Cemetery

• Elgin City Cemetery

• Elgin Latin Cemetery

• Old Elgin Latin Cemetery

• Hog Eye Cemetery

• Magdaline Cemetery, Elgin Steiner Ranch

• Mary Christian-Burleson Cemetery

• McShan Cemetery

• Morgan Chapel Cemetery

• Old George Cemetery

• Pee Lee SDA Cemetery

• Pleasant Grove Cemetery

• Reneau-Johnson Cemetery (destroyed)

• Sayers Cemetery

• Smith Cemetery

• Speir Cemetery

• Standifer Family Cemetery

• Syfret Family Cemetery

• Westbrook Memorial Gardens

• Wilson Cemetery

• Young’s Prairie Cemetery

 

Butler Brick Company Cemetery

Butler, Texas near Elgin

Size: Small

Cemetery not accessible / No photo available

GPS Coordinates: 30.31194, -97.2828

 

With central operations at a 1,000-acre site in Butler, five miles east of Elgin, and sales headquarters in Austin, the Butler Brick Company is a fifth-generation family-owned business that ships bricks nationwide and internationally. In 1871 the Texas and New Orleans Railroad arrived at the site in Bastrop County, and the community that grew up came to be known as Butler, after an Irish immigrant bricklayer, Michael Butler, who was the first to make bricks from the nearby clay pits that he discovered by accident while digging holes on land then used for timber. The company was founded in 1873. Over the years Butler became a company town with a company store and brick houses for employees, who farmed on the side. By the 1940s the town population reached 150. 

https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utaaa/00057/aaa-00057.html

Collected information about the company does not mention the cemetery; however it may be assumed those buried at Butler Brick Cemetery either worked at the nearby company or were family members of those affiliated with the company in some way.

https://www.preservationaustin.org/uploads/PA_News_Summer2016_web_FINAL.pdf

Courthouse death records indicate several burials in this cemetery. According to the Cemeteries of Texas website, there are 10 gravesites dating 1928 to 1930:

http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Etx/Bastrop/cemetery/butler.htm

 

Coates Cemetery

Lower Elgin Road

Size: Small

Cemetery not found / Photo by Kenneth Felps

GPS Coordinates: 30.2197600, -97.4136000

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/428774/coats-family-cemetery/photo#view-photo=9759595

 

According to online information, the Coates Cemetery is on Lower Elgin Road, on right if coming from Elgin; north of Cedarwood Road, inside a chain link fence near Wilbarger Creek Bridge. The cemetery is an area 30’ deep and 42’ wide enclosed by a chain link fence. The cemetery is on private property about 25 feet from Lower Elgin River but has been left accessible from the public road by a gate in the chain link fence.

 

Although no markers containing the name Coats appear in this cemetery, all grave sites are for members of the family of William and Sarah Coats: a married daughter, Anna M. McGinnis; a son-in-law, Joseph G Gresham; a young grandson, J. R. Rivers; an adult granddaughter, Mary J. Wilson; three infant great-grandchildren, all last name Blair; and one adult great-grandson, Willie Sandifer.

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In a conversation with Steve Rivers, the great, great, great grandson of William and Sarah Coats, Rivers explained that William and Sarah Coats were also originally buried in the Coats family cemetery and were later moved to the Elgin cemetery (Rivers 2015).

http://lowerelginroadbridge.com/coats_family_cemetery.html

 

Contributed by Tammy Owen, Aug 18, 2000. Total records = 7: From Bastrop, take Highway 71 west, FM 969 NW, right on FM 55. The cemetery will be on the right in chain link fence.

• Blair, Martha Margaret, b. 1/4/1877, d. 1/12/1877, child of John W and Anna B. Gresham Blair)

• Blair, Thomas Joseph, b. 2/2/1875, d. 12/27/1876, child of J.W. & A.E. Blair

• Gresham, J.G., b. 8/22/1816, d.?/15/1862, Husband of M.L. Gresham. Mason

• McGinnis, Anna M, b. 10/1/1833, d. 11/13/1869, Age 36 yrs 1 mo 12 days, w/o O.H.P. McGinnis

• Riverse, J.R., b. 10/26/1861, d. 11/25/1865, Age 1 yr 27 days. son of W. & S.E. Riverse

• Sandifer, Willie, b. 1875, d. 1902

• Wilson, Martha J., b. 7/15/1849, d. 12/5/1872, w/o J. M. Wilson

 

The Old Coates Slave Cemetery is located on this property. There are no headstones marking these graves. It was surveyed July 31, 1998. 

http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Etx/Bastrop/cemetery/coates.htm

 

Coulson Cemetery

FM 3000

Size: Small

Cemetery not found / No photo available

GPS Coordinates: n/a

Coulson Cemetery can be found 1.8 miles east on FM 3000. According to information found, one would turn left on pavement to find graves on the right after making the turn, under the group of trees in the corner of the pasture.

http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Etx/Bastrop/cemetery/coulson.htm

 

Craddock Cemetery

County Road 696

Size: Small

Cemetery not found / No photo available

GPS Coordinates: n/a

Craddock Cemetery is about four miles from McDade. From Butler, go north on County Rd 696. The cemetery is noted to be before County Road 102, to the right, and County Road 96, to the left, 10 feet from a tributary of Sandy Creek and is hidden in the woods.

http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Etx/Bastrop/cemetery/craddock.htm

 

Davis Cemetery

Near County Road 3000

Size: Small

Cemetery not found/internet photo, photographer unknown

GPS Coordinates: n/

http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Etx/Bastrop/cemetery/davis1.htm

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*Elgin City Cemetery

901 W. 2nd Street

Size: Large / well maintained

GPS Coordinates: 30.3487700, -97.3777