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Pioneer Cemetery. In 1991 the three churches overseeing cemetery maintenance, plot sales and burials formed a 501c13 Cemetery Nonprofit Corporation called, Der Stadtische Friedhof Fredericksburg Inc. (IRS EIN 74-2610012). The churches were Bethany Lutheran, Holy Ghost Lutheran, and Zion Lutheran. There are upwards of 5,000 graves in Der Stadt Friedhof, not all of them currently marked, many unidentifiable due to the passage of time. Some of the graves had only wooden markers which rotted in time, and some graves were obliterated whenever Barons Creek overflowed its banks. During
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Vereins Kirche were responsible for cemetery maintenance. In 1850, the Catholics broke away and started their own church, establishing their own cemetery, now known as
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John Peter Tatsch (1822–1907) Master cabinet maker. Tatsch's work is prized by collectors of Texas primitive furniture. His home is listed in the
Historic American Buildings Survey of the United States Department of the Interior and its plans placed in the Library of
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resting over a grave and known as the 1906 Schnerr
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Ruth Ament Huffman Baines (1854–1936) Grandmother of Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Unruh, Leon (2000). "Straight and Narrow is the Path in Fredericksburg".
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A Guide to the Historic Buildings of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County
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