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Submitted: 2/28/14 • Approved: 7/5/14 • Last Updated: 3/23/18 • R3815-G0-S3
CONFEDERATE CEMETERY
This cemetery is located within part of a 40-acre grant of land given to the city of San Antonio by the King of Spain.The property was later subdivided into twenty-nine separate city cemeteries by alder-men, and this area was designated as city cemetery number four
This section became known as the Confederate
Cemetery after its purchase in 1885 by the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp N0. 1, United Confederate Veterans. The earliest documented burial in this plot, that of Charles Hutcheson, dates to 1855 and was already in
place at the time of the camp's purchase.
Prominent Confederate Veterans interred here in-John Salmon "Rip" Ford, the pioneer Texas political leader and newspaper editor famous for his service as a Texas Ranger; George Wyeth Baylor, a political and military leader; and Hamilton P Bee, Confederate general and speaker of the Texas House of Representa-
tives. There are over 900 marked burials in the Con-federate Cemetery, including those of Civil War Veterans, their dependents, and later generations of descendants. Also buried here are veterans of World War I and World War II.
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