Bell County Texas Genealogy and History
CEMETERY CENTRAL

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Welcome to the Cemetery Central page for Bell County, Texas.  With this site, we have made an effort to organize in one place all resources and tools helpful in researching the cemeteries of our county.  If you have any suggestions or corrections for this page, please contact TXBELL assistant coordinator Jody Dillard.

At this time, we have over a hundred cemetery inventories available to browse in the archives.  We've had some great volunteers assisting with this valuable project to make these valuable resources FREE to any Bell County researchers.  If you would like to inventory or transcribe a cemetery, start a cleanup project, or submit headstone photos, contact Jody!

   BELL COUNTY CEMETERY LINKS  

Digital Archives Library - our online archives include Bell County cemetery inventories, obituaries, and death records

Cemetery Transcription Project - ongoing effort to store Bell County cemetery lists online in the archives for free research

Bell County Cemetery Coordinates - listing of Bell County cemeteries known to the US Geological Survey, including navigational coordinates and region.  As of July 2002, this only lists 55 cemeteries, but should include all the major ones.

USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project (Bell County TX)

BellNet Cemetery Database - another list of known Bell County cemeteries

Bell County Cemeteries on Findagrave.com - Great resource for interments and grave photos!
 

   ENHANCED CEMETERY PAGES  

An ever-increasing collection of pages, each dedicated to detailing
a specific Bell County cemetery.  Check back often for new pages!

Allen Cemetery Antioch Church Cemetery Bartlett Cemetery Bell Plains Cemetery
Bellwood Memorial Park Blackburn Cemetery Boone-Hamlin Cemetery Bottoms/Arthur Cemetery
Brown Cemetery Buckhorn Cemetery Cedar Creek Cemetery Center Lake Cemetery
Cyclone Cemetery Czech National Cemetery Dallas Cemetery Dulaney Cemetery
Dyess Cemetery Dyess Grove Cemetery East Belton Cemetery German Methodist Cemetery
Greathouse Cemetery Hamblen-Aiken Cemetery Herrington Cemetery Hill (Midway) Cemetery
Hillcrest Cemetery Hodge Cemetery Holland Cemetery Keeney Family Cemetery
Killeen City Cemetery Lancaster Cemetery Little Flock Cemetery Little River-Wilson Valley Cemetery
Live Oak Cemetery Maxdale Cemetery Mayberry Cemetery McCann Cemetery
McDowell Cemetery McLean Cemetery Mesquite Cemetery Moffat Cemetery
Moody-Leon Cemetery NBCA Cemetery New Hope/Evergreen Cemetery North Belton Cemetery
Ocker Brethren Church Cemetery Old Troy Cenetery Oliver Cemetery Pendleton Cemetery
Pleasant Hill Cemetery Pleasant View Cemetery Post Oak Cemetery Quinteros Cemetery
Reed Cemetery Reed's Lake Cemetery Resthaven Cemetery Roberts Cemetery
Robertson Family Cemetery Salado Cemetery Seaton Cemetery Seven Star Cemetery
Sharp Cemetery Shiloh Cemetery St John's Lutheran Cemetery St Paul Lutheran Cemetery
South Belton Cemetery Stockton Family Cemetery Sunshine Cemetery Taylors Valley Cemetery
Temple Garden of Memories (Mt Zion) Theo Cemetery Volo Cemetery West Salado Cemetery
Wedel Cemetery Whitehall Everrest Cemetery    

 

   GENERAL CEMETERY RESOURCES  

Texas Historic Commission Historic Cemetery Program - similar the to the state's historical marker program, this program is to recognize and record the historic cemeteries of Texas.  Bell County cemeteries currently recognized are Little River - Wilson Valley Cemetery, Moffat Cemetery, South Belton Cemetery, Willingham Cemetery, and the Old Salado Cemetery.  An application is underway for Taylor's Valley Cemetery and perhaps others.

Historic Texas Cemeteries - a comprehensive site by Donna Brand about the cemeteries of Texas.  Check it out!

Cemeteries of Texas - website dedicated to obtaining, creating, and presenting Texas cemeteries as they are today

Virtual Cemetery - an interesting site by genealogy.com on which you can browse and share tombstone pictures.  Sometimes a little buggy, but a great resource

USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project

USGS Coordinate Locator - great search tool for the US Geological Survey database of landmarks, including cemeteries.  Provides navigational coordinates and a map from the U.S. Census Bureau's Tiger Map Server.

Maptech - online resource for topographical maps.  Search by place name or GPS coordinates

TopoZone - online resource for topographical maps.  Search by place name or GPS coordinates

DMS Converter - Convert geographic coordinates from degree, minutes, and seconds to decimal coordinates.  Or vice versa.

Cemetery Junction

Cemetery Records Online

The Cemetery Column - articles about cemeteries

Save Texas Cemeteries - non-profit organization for saving Texas cemeteries

FuneralNet - Online resource for locating obituaries, funeral homes, cremation, and cemetery records.

Cemetery Restoration Toolbox - Great resource for cemetery/tombstone restorations

Association for Gravestone Studies - an organization for the purpose of furthering the study and preservation of gravestones.

 

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