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TX - Old D'Hanis Cemetery

Wet plate collodion image courtesy Gary Castillo, June 2016

The old D�Hanis Cemetery and the ruins of St. Dominic Church are worthy of a stop for anyone traveling US 90. They are just east of the high school, a quarter of a mile south of highway 90.

Tombstone of Bandera's sheriff killed by Indians Bandera�s First Sheriff born in Bohemia - killed by Indians in Texas Photo by John Troesser, May 2004

Noteworthy headstones are the First Sheriff of Bandera County (Born in Bohemia, served in the Mexican War and killed by Indians) and the first person interred � a girl who died of fever after carrying her brothers and sisters across a stream.

The townspeople stopped using the cemetery in 1893 due to a Diphtheria epidemic, but the old-world artistic inscriptions and the wrought-iron markers make the Old D�Hanis Cemetery one of the most interesting in Texas.

St. Dominic Church ruin and cemetery, D'Hanis, Texas The ruins showing the Old D'Hanis Cemetery and the northern wall of St. Dominic Church Photo by John Troesser, May 2004

TX - Tombstone in Old D'Hanis Cemetery

Wet plate collodion image courtesy Gary Castillo, June 2016

Tombstone fragment in Old D'hanis Cemetery A tombstone fragment Photo courtesy Vitaly Altoiz

Tombstone showing stone cutter's skill

A tombstone showing the stone cutter's meticulous skill
Photo courtesy Vitaly Altoiz

Eye on tombstone, Old D'Hanis Cemetery, Texas

Another tombstone detail
Photo courtesy Vitaly Altoiz

Tombstone in Old D'Hanis, Texas Another tombstone in Old D�Hanis TE Photo May 2004
Ghostly angel on tombstone A photo of this ghostly angel was once used for a cover on a Texas cemeteries book Photo by John Troesser, May 2004

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