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Primary Materials - Texas Cemetery Cases, Codes and Regulations - Please let us know about additional current or pending Texas cemetery protection laws.

• Private Cemetery Visitation Days
  75th Texas Legislature, Senate Resolution 591 -- House Resolution 1097
  1st Sunday in April / 1st Sunday in October
• HB1030  
  Proposed law relating to the identification and preservation of abandoned cemeteries.
• The Texas Statutes Search  
  Search on the term "cemetery".
• Government Code:
  • Chapter 442 - Texas Historical Commission
  • Chapter 1475 - County Bonds and Warrants For Navigation Purposes.
  • Chapter 2165 - State Buildings, Grounds and Property.
  • Chapter 2166 - Building Construction and Acquisition
• Health and Safety Code:
  • Chapter 711 - General provisions relating to cemeteries.
  • Chapter 712 - Perpetual care cemeteries.
  • Chapter 713 - Local regulation of cemeteries.
  • Chapter 714 - Miscellaneous provisions relating to cemeteries.
  • Chapter 715 - Certain historic cemeteries.
• Local Government Code:
  • Chapter 251 - Municipal Right of Eminent Domain.
  • Chapter 261 - County Right of Eminent Domain.
• Natural Resources Code:
  • Chapter 164 - Veteran's Financial Assistance Program.
• Occupations Code:
  • Chapter 651 - Cemetery and Crematory Services, Funeral Directing, and Embalming.

Texas State Government - Add Link

• Texas State Website
• Texas State Archives
• Texas State and Local Government on the Net
  Piper Resources 

Texas Law Enforcement - Add Link

• Law Enforcement Online - Texas

Endangered Texas Cemeteries
Submit a Endangered Cemetery Report | Update Existing Report

• Able Cemetery
  Location: Munster, Cooke County
• Bailey Inglish Cemetery  
  Location: Bonham, Fannin County
• Baker Cemetery  
  Location: Houston, Harris County
• Boyd Cemetery
  Location: Winnsboro, Wood County
  Surnames: Boyd, Houge, Jared
• Campbell Cemetery 
  Location: Paris, Lamar County
• Caldwell County Cemetery 
  Location: Delhi, Caldwell County
• Cedar Grove Cemetery  
  Location: Greenville, Hunt County
• Clint Cemetery  
  Location: Clint, El Paso County
• Coontown Cemetery
  Location: Savoy, Fannin County
  Surnames: Bettus Blythe Caldwell Carter Christian Coonrod Deatherage Dooley Dorsey Fowler Gibson Gunter Haggard Hodges Horne Horsley Hundley Hunt Hutchins Kirkpatrick Marlow Mahurin Melugin Mullins O'Daniel Ray Roberts Short Stevens Stogough Taylor Thomson Waldrum Watwood White
• Crossland Cemetery  
  Location: Naples, Morris County
• Delba Cemetery
  Location: Leonard, Fannin County
• Ewing Cemetery  
  Location: Caviness, Lamar County
• Gay-Hagan Cemetery  
  Location: Gladewater, Upshur County
• Glenwood Cemetery  
  Location: Nash, Ellis County
• Hays (Hayes) Cemetery  
  Location: Myra, Cook County
• Hood Cemetery
  Location: Whitewright, Grayson County, Texas
  Surnames: Cash, Franks, Gilliam, Hood, Palmer, Rodgers
• Hopewell Cemetery  
  Location: McKinney, Hunt County
• McAdams Cemetery  
  Location: Dallas, Dallas County
• McMillin Cemetery 
  Location: Jewett, Leon County
• Milheim Cemetery  
  Location: Sealy, Austin County
• Mt. Sylvan Cemetery  
  Location: Kilgore, Gregg County
• Old Moss Cemetery
  Location: Nacogdoches County, Texas
  Surnames: Palmer
• O'Neill Cemetery
  Location: Leesville, Gonzales County, Texas
  Surnames: O'Neill
• Sabinetown Cemetery  
  Location: Hemphill, Sabine County
• Shipp Hill Cemetery 
  Location: Newport, Clay County
• Taylor's Valley Cemetery
  Location:  Belton, Bell County, Texas
  Surnames: Bolles, Bruner, Chaffin, Chambers, Clary, Clay, Deaver, Edens, Elliott, Forrester, Giles, Grissom, Harris, Hawkins, Honeycutt, Jones, Mabry, Mahaney, McCormick, Nichols, Nott, Osborn, Pitman, Pruett, Ratliff, Scarbrough, Simons, Smith, Weeks, White
• Thalia Cemetery
  Location: Thalia, Foard County, Texas
  Surnames:
• Womack-White Cemetery
  Location: Morgan, Bosque County

Texas Cemetery Index - Add Link

• Cemetery Records Online - Texas
• Tombstone Inscription State Page - Texas
• I Dream Of Genealogy Cemetery Records - Texas
• Bell County Cemeteries
• Brazoria County Cemeteries
• Denton County Cemeteries
• Grayson County Cemeteries
• Harris County Cemeteries
• Hays County Texas Cemetery Updates
• Henderson County Texas Cemeteries
• Historic Texas Cemeteries
• Ongoing Texas Cemetery Resident Listing  
  List of burials in 16 cemeteries in Houston, Trinity, and Walker Counties, Texas.
• Nacogdoches County, Texas Cemeteries
• Newton County, Texas Cemeteries
• Texas Cemeteries  
  Web site designed to help locate, and preserve Texas Cemeteries. Also includes related Texas Cemeteries interest.
• Though Silent, They Speak - Several thousand indexed East Texas gravestone transcriptions.

Cemetery Locating Services - Add Link

• The US GeoGen Project - Texas

Cemetery Preservation Groups - Add Link

• Boren-Reagor Springs Cemetery
  This website is dedicated to preserve the History of the Boren-Reagor Springs Cemetery located in Reagor Springs, Ellis County, Texas.
• The Czech National Cemetery Association  
  East Bernard,  Wharton County.
• Freezeout Cemetery Cleanup
  Outside Rockdale, Milam County, Texas
• Save Texas Cemeteries  
  Working to promote the preservation of historic cemeteries and burial grounds throughout Texas by public education and historic research in order to preserve our rich, multi-cultural heritage.
• TX-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION  
  The purpose of the TX-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION mailing list and its web page is to facilitate the preservation of historic Texas cemeteries. By open discussion and exchange of ideas, techniques, and information we can work together in the separate regions of Texas to save our cemeteries.
• Texas Cemeteries
• Texas Historical Commission - Cemetery Preservation
• Comal County Genealogical Cemetery Preservation Project
• Wilson-Douglas Cemetery  
  Cemetery Restoration Project in Grayson County, Texas.

Other Texas Preservation Groups - Add Link

• Texas Historical Foundation
• Texas State Historical Association

Texas Cemetery Photos - Submit Photos

• Dodson Cemetery Photos,  Hill County Texas

Other Links - Add Link

• The Gravestone Speaks  
  Published quarterly for the members of Save Texas Cemeteries, Inc. whose mission is to promote the preservation of historic cemeteries and burial grounds throughout Texas by public education and historic research in order to preserve our rich, multi-cultural heritage.
• Theft of cemetery ornaments in Northeast Texas