Starr Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Elkhart, Texas

( off US 287/SH 19 about 3 mi. north of Elkhart on cemetery road)

Marker installed: 1969

Family graveyard of the descendants of John Starr (1797 - 1872), Texas pioneer. First person buried here, Starr lies beside wife Susannah. Interred nearby are 6 of their 8 children; 2 of the sons here served in the Confederate Army, Civil War. Ancestral home is on nearby Starr Hill. (1969).

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