The Salem Lutheran Cemetery

The cemetery that I decided to visit was The Salem Luthern Cemetery that is located in Tomball, TX. This cemetery was started by German immigrant families who cam to the United States and had built the cemetery for their families to use. As time went by the German families moved and eventually donated the cemetery to the Salem Lutheran Church in the year of 1869. Over time after the German immigrants had moved away, the language on the tombstones was changed from German to English and this was done to reflect the dominant language of the area. Yet there are still a few tombstones that are still written in German but the majority of them were in English. Once inside the cemetery I began to walk around to observe the tombstones and take pictures of the cemetery, one thing that I noticed in particular was that there were many Civil War, World War 2, and Korean Vets that were buried here in this cemetery. Along with this observation I read many of the tombstones and also found out that many children and infants died and were buried in the cemetery, but the stange fact was that almost all of the children then were buried here in the cemetery all died before the year 1940 and there were no tombstones that showed children's deaths after the 1940's. As I looked around the cemetery I could not find any famous people who were buried here, but there were three man who died in a accident when a power mill exploded along the creek that runs next to the cemetery, Spring Creek. This was on a plague that was inside the cemetery descrobing the accident and the names of the three men. At the cemetery there was two differnet kinds of stone which were granite and marble tombstones, with the age of the cemetery the condition of the many tombstones were not all in good condition. As seen in the pictures above there were some tombstones that were in very poor conditon, many had mold and were very weathered down. The overall condition of the Salem Lutheran Cemetery was okay taking in consideration how old the land was, and also the cemtery is kept very clean and neat.