Columbus' Old City Cemetery

Date of the earliest burial is not known. Oldest headstone, 1853/ Site (7A.) was deeded to the city in 1870 as an existent graveyard.

Burials here include Benjamin Beason, one of Austin's "Old 300" Colonists; W.B. Dewees, also in "Old 300", founder of Columbus; 1830's 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 Sherer, Founder. In 1857, of Colorado College; many Confederate soldiers; and victims of the 1873 Yellow Fever epidemic.

Cemetery entrance, 1300 block of Walnut Street
1973