Oak Hill Cemetery
by
Mack Stephenson

Stanley Chapel Cemetery
The cemetery is located about 10 miles north of Lampasas, about a mile
west of Highway 281, on County Road 48 (the first road north of
School Creek) and a short distance up a drive which branches off the north side of CR 48.

My maternal great-great grandparents, early Texas pioneers John and Edith Stanley,
settled with their family in Lampasas County in 1854. A
land transfer document dated October 6, 1885, signed by John Stanley,
deeded 61/2 acres of land to the Free School District #14, with par
to be used as a public cemetery, and one acre set aside for a Methodist church house.

We found no evidence of the church building, unless the old building apparently
being used as a cattle barn originally housed church services, but legible
stones still stand in the Stanley Chapel Cemetery, of which the attached
photos are but a few.  There are a number of unmarked graves in
this cemetery, which suffered a great deal of damage from livestock during a
number of years without a fence. Stones, or parts of stones,
may also have been washed away or buried by flood. The cemetery now
has a good fence, thanks to the Lampasas Historical Society.
by
Monelle Boyett Holley

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