Autobiography of victoria memorial cemetery

Victoria in Victoria County, Texas — The American South (West South Central)

Memorial Square. . Once the oldest public burial ground in Victoria, this square was laid out in 1824 when Martin de Leon founded the town, then located in the Mexican state of "Coahuila and Texas".

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In early years the cemetery included the block to the east, and many Victoria pioneers were interred here. Burials of soldiers in the Texas Revolution took place in 1836 and later. , The cemetery was only occasionally used, however, until 1846, when a new city ordinance discouraged burials in family cemeteries possibly to combat a cholera epidemic.

Many who succumbed were citizens but some were soldiers, under General Zachary Taylor, camped here en route to fight in the Mexican War., As the community grew, a larger plot (now Evergreen Cemetery) was purcha