26 SHARING THE PAST
One hundred and fifty- seven years ago, a small group of Boerne area residents organized the Boerne Graveyard Board to establish a common burial ground for the community.
H.G. Froebel, Board secretary, collected $178 from 33 residents in exchange for burial plots. Each person who paid $2 in specie (coin) received a nine-foot by fourand- a-half-foot burial plot. The funds were used to survey the land and build a rock wall around it.
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