Tomerlin Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Devine, Texas

( Go south from San Antonio through Devine on IH-35 to Moore-Yancy Exit (CR 462). Turn W on CR 462, 1 mi to CR 1660 (Frio Co. Road). Turn north on CR 1660 for 3.3 mi to gate on left side of road (CR 1660 becomes Medina CR 765 shortly before reaching the cemetery entrance). Go through gate .1 mile to cemetery gate (this right of way is CR 764 but is no longer fenced or evident).)

Marker installed: 2000

Washington Allen Tomerlin set aside this burial ground for his family and neighbors in what was at that time an isolated area of Medina County. The earliest dated gravestone is that of Marth Ivy Esary (1856-1875) but many old stones have initials and no dates. Among those buried here are veterans of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and Vietnam, as well as three Littleton brothers said to have been Texas Rangers. The southwest corner of this 1.39 acres holds the Brackens Family, freed slaves who settled nearby. This cemetery remains a chronicle of Medina County pioneers and their descendants.

Historic Texas Cemetery - 2000.

gravesites