New Braunfels Cemetery 
New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas
Cemeteries of Texas Coordinator: Dolores I. Bishop

Information provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site

 Location: 
near center of cemetery, 2000 US 81 west (business route) 
New Braunfels 

Marker : 
Dedicated at the burial of Mrs. Elise Peter, on June 23,1845, a 
few months after New Braunfels was founded. This cemetery gave 
rest to many colonists in early years of hardship that besieged the 
German Emigration Company. Gerlach Peter, husband of the first
tenant, was buried in July as one other of the 20 fatalites of 1845. 
There were 348 bruials in 1846. A ferry operator, Johann Justus Kellner 
(1821-51), has the oldest stone. There are 753 marked and hundreds 
of unmarked graves. The last vacant lot was sold in 1945. No burials are 
allowed except in lots purchased before 1946.