Fuchs Cemetery
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Fuchs Cemetery is one of several family cemeteries that existed in the White Oak Bayou community of NW Houston. It is located on the land once owned by German immigrants, August and Christiane Fuchs. The only known use was between 1908 to 1914. The four headstones in this cemetery can be clearly read and names and dates transcribed.
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From Texas State Historical Assn, Handbook of Texas:
Rosslyn Texas - Rosslyn, also known as White Oak, was a rural German community west of White Oak Bayou on what was then the western edge of Houston in west central Harris County. In the 1880s it had a population of 300. A post office was established in 1911 and discontinued in 1917, when mail was delivered from North Houston. In 1936 the community was listed on state highway maps. By 1982 Houston had grown around the two abandoned railroad stations that marked the site.
Fuchs Cemetery is one of several family cemeteries that existed in the White Oak Bayou community of NW Houston. It is located on the land once owned by German immigrants, August and Christiane Fuchs. The only known use was between 1908 to 1914. The four headstones in this cemetery can be clearly read and names and dates transcribed.
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From Texas State Historical Assn, Handbook of Texas:
Rosslyn Texas - Rosslyn, also known as White Oak, was a rural German community west of White Oak Bayou on what was then the western edge of Houston in west central Harris County. In the 1880s it had a population of 300. A post office was established in 1911 and discontinued in 1917, when mail was delivered from North Houston. In 1936 the community was listed on state highway maps. By 1982 Houston had grown around the two abandoned railroad stations that marked the site.
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Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials20k+
- Percent photographed47%
- Percent with GPS36%
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials10k+
- Percent photographed8%
- Percent with GPS0%
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials1k+
- Percent photographed19%
- Percent with GPS4%
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials196
- Percent photographed90%
- Percent with GPS0%
- Added: 10 May 2015
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2578504
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