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Brownsboro Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery

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SH 31 at FM 314, Brownsboro, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 18' 8.12878999992", -95° 36' 40.77765"
 
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     After migrating from Norway in 1845, Ole Reierson bought the land that included this cemetery site (1.1 mi. ESE). He chose the spot for his burial and carved several of the plain brown gravestones before he died in 1852. The cemetery's 24 marked and 81 unmarked graves are mostly those of Norwegian immigrants. A Lutheran church built nearby in 1889, served as a cemetery chapel until the 1920s. Will Tergerson tended the site for many years. An association formed in 1974 by descendants of early settlers now maintains it.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

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