History

T. A. BOATRIGHT BURIED A FAMILY CHILD AND HER HUSBAND, E. B., HERE IN THE LATE 1880’S WHEN THE SITE WAS KNOWN AS ELMWOOD CEMETERY. IN 1889, SHE BOUGHT LAND HERE FROM C. P. AND JULIA CREWS. SEVERAL GRAVES ALREADY EXISTED IN ADDITION TO THOSE OF HER FAMILY, AND MANY WERE UNMARKED. TODAY, THE EARLIEST MARKED GRAVE IS THAT OF JOSEPH METCALFE (d. 1887).

OVER TIME, THE PROPERTY EXCHANGED HANDS FROM THE BOATRIGHTS TO THE HAYGOODS. BIRDIE HAYGOOD BADGER SOLD THE PROPERTY IN 1950 TO THE NEWLY FORMED HUTTO CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, AND THE CEMETERY NAME CHANGED TO REFLECT ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE COMMUNITY. RECORDS INDICATE THAT WITHIN THE CEMETERY’S BOUNDS ARE TWO LOTS ONCE RESERVED FOR PAUPERS, AS WELL AS ONE LOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE SWEDISH CHURCH THAT EVOLVED INTO HUTTO’S FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.

THE COMMUNITY’S HISTORY IS EVIDENT IN THE CEMETERY, WITH TEXT ON GRAVE MARKERS SIGNIFYING SETTLERS WHO CAME FROM OTHER STATES OR COUNTRIES, AREA RESIDENTS WHO BELONGED TO FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS OR WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY AS EARLY AS THE CIVIL WAR, AND CHILDRED WHOSE BRIEF LIVES ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE LOCAL HISTORY.

HISTORICAL TEXAS CEMETERY – 2004