Marker Details

Salem Lutheran Cemetery


23555 1/2 Lutheran Cemetery Rd.

Tomball , 77377

Notes:
HR-C021 Historic Texas Cemetery, no marker; Atlas has 4/26/2005 as Date Designated, actual date 9/23/2008; two entries in THC Atlas, "SALEM LUTHERAN" location incorrect; phone 281-351-8223; open 8am to Dusk; NOTE - old set of photos on file, NO PHOTOS WITH MARKER
Directions: Rose Hill area; From Tomball Parkway/S.H. 249, go west one and one half of a mile on FM 2920 to Tomball Cemetery Road , north/right on Tomball Cemetery Road one mile to "T" intersection at Brown Road, turn left on Brown Road,. keep right at the stop sign intersection, then six tenths of a mile to the end of Lutheran Cemetery Road; use pedestrian gate to the left of the main entrance gate, sidewalk leads to the marker approx. 150 feet from gate

Key Time Period: 1846 - 1865 Statehood - Civil War

Corretions/New Research:

Marker Text: This burial ground began as the Scherer Family Cemetery. The Scherers were among the early settlers of Rosehill, a rural community in northwest Harris County. The first German settlers began arriving by way of Galveston in 1846. Through the efforts of founding pastor Johann Heinrich Braschler and local residents Jacob and Henry Theis, C.W. Winkler, and George Scherer, Salem Lutheran Church was established as a congregation in 1851. By the 1880s, in addition to the church, the area also had a post office, seven cotton gins, three general stores, a sawmill, a gristmill, a blacksmith and a wagon maker.



The first burials here were of Helena Scherer (d. 1859) and her brother, Reinhardt Johann Scherer (d. 1860). The first non-family member buried here was Eva Achenbach Theis (d. 1861). In 1864, three men who died in the Spring Creek Powder Mill explosion were interred here. In 1869, George Scherer transferred property including the cemetery to Salem Lutheran Church; the cemetery changed name at this time. Those buried here include veterans of military conflicts dating to the civil war. Others interred include many early Rosehill residents and other individuals who attended the church but lived in nearby communities such as Cypress Top, Decker Prairie and Willow Creek. Cemetery features include vertical stones, obelisks, interior fencing, grave slabs, statuary and German-language markers. Set among trees and vegetation, Salem Lutheran Cemetery remains active while continuing to serve as a record of the area’s early settlers.



Historic Texas cemetery - 2008

Marker is property of the State of Texas
Marker Type: Marker with Post
Historical Org: Historic Texas Cemetery with THC Marker

Key Map Information: 287 H

GPS Coordinates: 30 06.148, 95 39.721

Precinct No: 4

Marker No: 15724