The Texanist
August 11, 2018
The Texanist: What Do I Have to Do to Get Buried in the Texas State Cemetery?
A Brownsville woman wants to spend eternity in close proximity to Ma and Pa Ferguson.
Texas State Cemetery
Texas History
September 17, 2015
Remains to Be Seen
Peace and quiet among our most famous gravestones.
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
Death and Texas
After its recent facelift, the state cemetery has Texas luminaries just dying to get in.
Being Texan
April 1, 1996
Death and Texas
Here’s a World Wide Web page to die for. The Texas State Cemetery in Austin goes online (www.cemetery.statetx.us) late this month, thanks to the General Services Commission. You can scan a list of the more than two thousand luminaries buried there, from father of Texas Stephen F.
Texas History
April 1, 1973
Briar Patch
IF FORTUNE MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, the fortunes of death make the strangest of all. In the state cemetery in Austin, J. Frank Dobie, Ma and Pa Ferguson, and Big Foot Wallace lie within a 30-yard radius of one another. Their graves are near the top of a small hill which