The plot is marked off by large limestone blocks within the historic New Braunfels Cemetery located just off the I-35 South service road. It is now the site of the planned Field of Graves Memorial.
“It was many epidemics. A lot of people had pneumonia. A lot of people had dysentery,” said Lynn Thompson, a retired librarian who serves on the cemetery committee of the New Braunfels Parks Department.Even so, she said those first German families arrived on the Texas coast vulnerable to disease and death, having been weakened by the rigors of their long voyage.
“They might have been ill on the way and died when they got here,” Thompson said. “The common cold could kill you back then.” After landing on a bitterly cold Christmas Day, they then had to travel by wagon and on foot across what was still a rugged frontier.So many, Thompson said men, women and children had to be buried in unmarked graves.
“We think there’s at least 350 closer probably to 400 people are buried within a one-acre plot,” Thompson said.Ground penetrating radar showed they were not buried in mass graves, Thompson said. Instead, they were buried individually wrapped in muslin shrouds.located just off the I-35 South service road.By doing so, she said the city of New Braunfels is acknowledging everything those early settlers had gone through.
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