Columbus' Old City Cemetery 
Columbus, Colorado County, Texas
Cemeteries of Texas Coordinator: Dolores I. Bishop

Information provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site

Location: 
1300 Walnut st., Columbus (U.S. 90) 

Marker :
 Date of earliest burial is not known: oldest headstone, 1853.
 Site (7 A.) was deeded to the city in 1870 as an existent graveyard. 
Burials here included Benjamin Beason, one of Austin's "Old 300" 
colonists: W. B. DeWees, also in "Old 300," founder of Columbus; 1830s 
historian Dilue Rose and husband, Sheriff Ira Harris; Gen. Augustus 
Jones, War of 1812 and Texas War for Independence veteran; Dr. John G. Logue, 
known as founder of the first drugstore in Texas, 1845; The Rev. Jacob Scherer,
 founder, in 1857, of Colorado College; many Confederate soldiers; and victims 
of 1873 yellow fever epidemic.