Trinity Lutheran Cemetery
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Trinity Lutheran Cemetery

Also known as German Lutheran Cemetery , Lutheran Cemetery

Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA

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  • Get directions 600 Block Sawyer Street between State Street and North Memorial Way
    Houston, Texas, USA
    Coordinates: 29.76460, -95.38197
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Cemetery gate kept locked - No public access - Entry only by permission of Cemetery Sexton



NOTE: There is no information posted at the cemetery re: how to contact Sexton or Church for entry



Owned & operated by:

Trinity Lutheran Church, The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, a Texas non-profit corporation



Church address:

800 Houston Avenue, Houston, Texas 77007-7710

On 31 Jan 1881, the Board of Trustees of the Trinity Lutheran Church Congregation, represented by William Kersten and Herman Scriebler purchased 0.81 acres, more or less, as a site for the Church Cemetery located in the 600 Block of Sawyer and was known for many years as the German Lutheran Cemetery. It is located about 1-mile west of the present church campus at 800 Houston Avenue at Washington Avenue.



After the purchase, the land had to be cleared and plotted into burial spaces and lots. On 24 July 1881, the cemetery was formally dedicated. Headstones reveal some dates of death occurred prior to 1881, but it is believed the by the Church Sexton, that these individuals were moved from other locations and interred at the new cemetery.



Inventory of graves published: Brinley, Lorine, Harris County, Texas, Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol. II. (St. Louis, MO: Ingmire Publications, 1985). Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, p. 191-205.



Approx. 425 burials
















Cemetery gate kept locked - No public access - Entry only by permission of Cemetery Sexton



NOTE: There is no information posted at the cemetery re: how to contact Sexton or Church for entry



Owned & operated by:

Trinity Lutheran Church, The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, a Texas non-profit corporation



Church address:

800 Houston Avenue, Houston, Texas 77007-7710

On 31 Jan 1881, the Board of Trustees of the Trinity Lutheran Church Congregation, represented by William Kersten and Herman Scriebler purchased 0.81 acres, more or less, as a site for the Church Cemetery located in the 600 Block of Sawyer and was known for many years as the German Lutheran Cemetery. It is located about 1-mile west of the present church campus at 800 Houston Avenue at Washington Avenue.



After the purchase, the land had to be cleared and plotted into burial spaces and lots. On 24 July 1881, the cemetery was formally dedicated. Headstones reveal some dates of death occurred prior to 1881, but it is believed the by the Church Sexton, that these individuals were moved from other locations and interred at the new cemetery.



Inventory of graves published: Brinley, Lorine, Harris County, Texas, Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol. II. (St. Louis, MO: Ingmire Publications, 1985). Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, p. 191-205.



Approx. 425 burials
















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