Type Cemetery
Also known as Yegua Creek Evangelical Free Church Cemetery
Williamson County, Texas, USA
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Swedish-born August Smith owned a store which staddled the line between Bastrop and Williamson Counties. Smith opened the Type Post office in that store in 1902, probably naming the community for the printing machine owned by his friend Jonas Sunvision.
The Type Cemetery was established on land conveyed by Peder and Christine Nygard when the Swedish Free Mission Church was founded in May 1908. The tombstones of Anna Amalia Hansen (Hanson)(d 1910) and Christina Frederickson (d.1915) are inscribed in Swedish, merely one indication of the strong cultural identification of the early settlers with their homeland. Burials before 1950 are primarily those of members of the Carlson, Hanson, Nygard, Nyman, and Swenson Families.
The small number of Scandinavian burials in the cemetery after 1950 reflects the group's assimilation into American culture and the dispersal of local young people to cities. In 1954 the Swedish Free Mission Church merged with Kimbro's Free Church. Of the 36 graves counted in 1998, eleven were those of Swedish immigrants and fifteen were first or generation Scandinavian Texans. Several Mexican graves were located on the eastern edge of the cemetery. The Yegua Creek Evangelical Free Church, which relocated to this site in 1987, maintains the Type Cemetery. (1998)
(Information provided by Sarah Locklin Taylor)
Type Cemetery is located at 1300 County Road 1466, out of Coupland, Williamson County, Texas.
Swedish-born August Smith owned a store which staddled the line between Bastrop and Williamson Counties. Smith opened the Type Post office in that store in 1902, probably naming the community for the printing machine owned by his friend Jonas Sunvision.
The Type Cemetery was established on land conveyed by Peder and Christine Nygard when the Swedish Free Mission Church was founded in May 1908. The tombstones of Anna Amalia Hansen (Hanson)(d 1910) and Christina Frederickson (d.1915) are inscribed in Swedish, merely one indication of the strong cultural identification of the early settlers with their homeland. Burials before 1950 are primarily those of members of the Carlson, Hanson, Nygard, Nyman, and Swenson Families.
The small number of Scandinavian burials in the cemetery after 1950 reflects the group's assimilation into American culture and the dispersal of local young people to cities. In 1954 the Swedish Free Mission Church merged with Kimbro's Free Church. Of the 36 graves counted in 1998, eleven were those of Swedish immigrants and fifteen were first or generation Scandinavian Texans. Several Mexican graves were located on the eastern edge of the cemetery. The Yegua Creek Evangelical Free Church, which relocated to this site in 1987, maintains the Type Cemetery. (1998)
(Information provided by Sarah Locklin Taylor)
Type Cemetery is located at 1300 County Road 1466, out of Coupland, Williamson County, Texas.
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- Added: 22 Jul 2004
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 1989053
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