LOWER WILLOW CREEK CEMETERY
Mason Co. Cemeteries of Texas
Carol Martin <shootfor8@moment.net>
This listing is from some of my own records, visits to the cemetery, the ‘Mason County Historical Book’, the book ‘One Hundred Years of the Hilda (Bethel) Methodist Church and Parent Organizations’, and the book ‘Mason County Graves and Cemeteries’.
By these records, the oldest burial would be that of Joanna (Lehmberg) Leifeste in 1854.
According to the book ‘One Hundred Years of the Hilda (Bethel) Methodist Church and Parent Oraganizations’ - Rev. C. A. Grote began visiting his members (of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South) along the Llano River in 1852.
The Lower Willow Creek Methodist Church (a rock bldg.) was built across the creek, from the cemetery, in 1868.
LOCATION
3.5 miles East of TX Hwy. 87, 2/10 of a mile (measured from pasture gate) off Lower Willow Creek Rd. - on the north bank of the Llano River and near the mouth of the Lower Willow Creek.
| DURST | Birth | Death |
| Johannes 'John' (Although 'John' was buried in the Lower Willow Creek Cem., his remains were later removed to the Der Stadt in Fredericksburg, Gillespie CoKOPP., TX by family members). | 2/24/1799 |
10/14/1870 |
| John
Bernhardt
(Son of Johannes 'John' & Christina Margarethe (Binder) Durst) |
6/13/1841 |
4/18/1889 |
| Mary
Emelia
(Dtr. of John Bernhardt & Mary (Finke) Kopp Durst) |
1/18/1887 |
1/27/1892 |
|
M. C.
(This listing, from the book 'Mason County Graves and Cemeteries' could be
a mistaken entry of the listing for Nelly Clara - the book actually shows
d. date of 19/14/1903) |
2/14/1832 |
19/14/1903 |
| Nellie Clara (Dtr. of John Bernhardt & Mary (Finke) Kopp Durst) | 2/04/1882 |
9/14/1903 |
| ECKERT | ||
| Infant (Dtr. of Ludwig & Karolina (Herber) Eckert) | 1/08/1864 |
1/08/1864 |
| GROTE | ||
| Conradina
Bertha 'Dina' (Lehmberg)
(w/o Fritz Adolph Grote, shown as Koraline in the bk. 'Mason County Graves
and Cemeteries') |
1/04/1847 |
6/11/1876 |
|
HASSE |
Photo |
|
| Sophia
Henriette (Hauer) 'Sophie' Behrens
(3rd wife of Heinrich Carl 'Henry' Sr and I suspect that her maiden name
may have actually been Bauer) |
1811 |
1892 |
| Heinrich
Carl 'Henry' Sr (According to
the 'Mason County Historical Book', p98 - Henry was a widower who married
widow Sophit Behrens and he was buried in a cemetery on the Lower Willow
Creek near the Llano River) |
3/24/1810 |
4/26/1880 |
|
KOPP |
||
| John
Catrin Albert (Son of John
Christoph & Mary (Finke) Kopp) |
1876 |
1888 |
|
KOTHMANN |
||
| Clara
(Dtr. of Karl Dietrich & Louisa (Stahl).
It is noted in the book 'Mason County Graves and Cemeteries' that her
remains were removed to the A. Kothmann Ranch Cem.) |
1/08/1867 |
1/20/1870 |
| Dorthea (Hartwig)
(I have in my records Sophie Hartwig b.
1833 who mrd. Heinrich Friedrich 'Fritz' Kothmann, but I don't know if
Dorthea was a first or middle name for Sophie) |
3/07/1835 |
1869 |
| Louis |
6/01/1867 |
10/30/1868 |
|
LEHMBERG |
||
| Frieda |
1/30/1887 |
7/31/1887 |
| Friedrich
Julius 'Fritz' (In 1892, his
widow mrd. Johann Dietrich 'John' Eckert and is buried with 'John' in the
Gooch Cem. at Mason, Mason Co., TX) |
10/25/1858 |
3/03/1890 |
| Infant
(Dtr. of Fritz & Mathilda
(Kothmann) Lehmberg) |
11/30/1881 |
11/30/1881 |
| Johann
Julius (h/o Sophie) |
4/25/1824 |
3/25/1878 |
| Ann Sophia
'Sophie' Dorathee Christina (Kreye)
(w/o Johann Julius Lehmberg) |
4/25/1824 |
3/25/1878 |
|
LEIFESTE |
||
| Christina |
12/07/1832 |
11/26/1907 |
| Christoph |
12/06/1814 |
11/11/1897 |
| Emma
(Dtr. of Johann Heinrich Gottfired
'Henry' and Margaretha 'Margarite' (Rheinhard) Leifeste) |
7/08/1860 |
11/04/1878 |
| Emma
(Dtr. of Christoph & Christina - this was
note in the book 'Mason County Graves and Cemeteries'. I have found no
other mention of a dtr. named Emma to this couple.) |
________ |
11/11/1865 |
| Johann
Heinrich Gottfried 'Henry'
(h/o Margarethe 'Margarite' (Rheinhard) |
5/02/1819 |
3/18/1908 |
| Herman
(Son of Christoph & Christina) |
9/17/1868 |
10/02/1869 |
| Johanna
Henriette (Lehmberg) (2nd wife
of Christoph Leifeste) |
2/01/1827 |
1/23/1854 |
|
Margarethe
'Margarite' (Rheinhard) |
1829 |
5/28/1875 |
| Wilhelmine
'Minna' (Dtr. of 'Henry' and
Margarethe) |
11/07/1858 |
2/23/1879 |
|
McMILLAN |
||
| Mrs Willie |
Abt. 1898 |
4/28/1926 |
|
MUELLER |
||
| John
C. (3rd husband of Maria
'Mary' Barbara (Findke) Kopp Durst) |
11/08/1858 |
5/15/1902 |
|
NEARES |
||
| Tomatha |
5/04/1925 |
6/01/1925 |
|
PLUENNEKE
Plaaque |
||
| Alfred
(Son of Heinrich Conrad and
Eliesabeth 'Eliese', may be buried in this cemetery, but not a known
fact.) |
7/20/1875 |
7/30/1875 |
| Alma
(Dtr. of Heinrich Conrad and
Eliesabeth 'Eliese', may be buried in this cemetery, but not a known
fact.) |
11/__/1877 |
11/17/1877 |
| August
(h/o Minna (Pape) Pluenneke) |
8/05/1859 |
11/27/1919 |
| Eliesabeth
'Eliese' (Brandenberger)
(1st wife of Heinrich Conrad
Pluenneke) |
2/25/1855 |
12/02/1878 |
|
Heinrich
Conrad (h/o Sophia Christina (Leifeste) |
12/26/1819 |
5/13/1897 |
| Minna (Pape) |
8/11/1869 |
8/23/1925 |
| Sophia
Christina (Leifeste) |
1/07/1824 |
1/09/1898 |
| Wesley
Henry (Son of August & Minna (Pape)
Pluenneke) |
7/17/1895 |
12/17/1905 |
|
SPAETH |
||
| Mrs
Elizabeth |
________ |
Abt. 1888 |
|
BELIEVED BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY |
||
| RUEGER,
Anna Hulda |
10/07/1876 |
10/07/1877 |
| TEACT,
Dizina |
________ |
1/28/1865 |
