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Submitted: 10/25/14 • Approved: 7/18/15 • Last Updated: 7/15/23 • R32813-G0-S3
Located 82 yards east of the corner of 6th St. and Sachse St. in Sachse, Dallas County, Texas.
GPS Coordinates: 32deg 58min 42.65sec N & 96deg 35min 38.39sec W
TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
WILLIAM SACHSE CEMETERY
William Sachse, a native of Prussia, arrived in nearby Collin County in 1845 as a Peters Colonist. He became a successful businessman, rancher, and trader, and participated in several cattle drives to Kansas. His business successes over time allowed him to acquire more than 500 acres of land in Collin and Dallas Counties. In 1886, Sachse gave some of this land to the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad for a railway line and townsite. The community that grew up around the railroad was named Sachse in his honor. Sachse moved his family to the new town and soon set aside two acres of land for a church and this cemetery.
The graveyard has been used throughout its history as a public burial ground. The oldest marked grave, that of William Sachse, is dated 1899. Sachse’s second wife, Martha (Frost), a number of their descendants, as well many early settlers and their descendants are buried here. Some of the family names are Salmon, Herring, Ingram, House, Harper, and Brand.
The William Sachse Cemetery, with its ties to early settlement in this part of the state, is an important reminder of the area’s heritage.
(1985)
Contributed on 10/25/14 by gasirek
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