Cook Cemetery
The Cook Cemetery is located within the city limits of Lampasas.  It is near the northeast corner of the HWY 190 by-pass and Western Street.  It is beside 
the Santa Fe Square Shopping Center parking lot.  The oldest marked grave belongs to Rebeca Huse [Hughes] who died in 1854.  The last marked grave 
belongs to J.S. Brown, Jr who died in 1873.  This cemetery is no longer used for burials.  It is in a well maintained condition.  The owners of the shopping
center are responsible for its care and maintenance.  In the 1970s this cemetery was nearly destroyed by the development of the shopping center.  
Concerned citizens took action and the cemetery was saved and deeded to the Lampasas County Historical Commission.  In 1993, the LCHC placed a Recorded 
Texas Historic Landmark marker on this cemetery.

Cook Cemetery (Texas Historical Marker)
     This cemetery, Lampasas' oldest, was established as a pioneer community graveyard in the mid-1850s.  The first marked burial here was that of 
     Rebecca Hughes in 1854.  The cemetery is named after Arkansas natives William M. and Cyntha Cook who moved to Texas about 1856 and brought the 
     land containing this graveyard in 1861.  No recorded burials occurred here after that of J.S. Brown (d. 1873), due, it is believed, to major 
     flooding here in 1873.  The cemetery has been altered by highway and  business development.  It was deeded to the Lampasas County Historical 
     Commission in 1978.  (1993)

Black, W.L., June 1, 1868, age 35 years
Brook, Lafayette, Jan. 1, 1866 - Dec. 16, 1869, son of T. & N.A.,marker missing
Brooks, ?, Nov. ??, 1938 - May 11, 1872, age 33y, 6m, 6d
Brown, J.S., Nov. 21, 1865 - May 21, 1868
Brown, J.S. Jr. (Joshua), July 20, 1848 - Aug. 14, 1873, son of J.S. & E.
Castles, Maria, age 27, July 26, 1868, wife of Dr. G.W. Castles,
       erected by her devoted bro. J.W. Ferris
Cooksey, R.C. (Richmond), July 17, 1847 - Dec. 28, 1869
French, Elisha, Mar. 9, 1855 - Nov. 1, 1855, Nov. 13, 1856
Fuller, William T., Mar. 8, 1842 - Mar. 1, 1872, 
       pastor of Church of Christ, Huntsville, TX
Hughes, Nimrod, 32y, 5m, 22d
Huse (Hughes), Mary Francis, Dec. 20,1833 - Dec. 14,1854, wife of Nimrod Hughes
Huse (Hughes), Rebeca, June 5, 1801 - Mar. 4, 1854
Jackson, S.S., May 20, 1823 - May 14, 1873, 49y, 11m, 21d
Love, Mary J., age 31 years, Aug. 31, 1859, also 6 month old child
Morris, Wm, Mar. 26, 1849 - Oct. 11, 1872, son F.G. Morris
Pace, W.B., Aug. 9, 1814 - Apr. 29, 1873, Capt 2nd Frnt Dist CSA, 
       born S.C. Greenville District, member of the Christian Church
Phelin, Evan, Dec. 25, 1871 - Jan. 11, 1872, marker missing
Pratt, Jesse, 1867
Ricoks, Morris, Apr. 18, 1811 - Feb. 19, 1852, marker missing
Ryan, Prince L., Jan. 24, 1853 - Jan. 30, 1868, killed by Indians
Toland, Mary, age 80 years, Nov. 6, 1870, mother of 8 children

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