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Pond Springs Historical Cemetery Association Inc. is a grass-roots effort to clean up our beloved acre, also known as “God’s Garden”. If you have the need to be a hero, God’s Garden needs you !

Pond Springs Cemetery is an award-winning historical cemetery located in Northwest Austin, Texas. The first known burial on the land was that of 6-month-old Jacob Leonce Glenn. He died of a rattlesnake bite in October 1860, inflicted while his mother was distracted hanging laundry, (can you imagine?). Jacob was buried in the Walden Section of Pond Springs Cemetery. In 1862, Asenath Stewart was the first known burial in Pond Springs “proper”. She died of a childbirth-related illness while her husband (Andrew Jackson (“AJ” or “Jack”) STEWART was a Private in Company D, 1st Texas Cavalry (Yager’s), CSA. He died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 4 days after Lee surrendered to Grant. The 1st Texas Cavalry was organized in New Orleans Louisiana on 6 November 1862, 4 days before his wife died. Asenath likely kissed him good-bye and went into labor while he was en route. AJ wasn’t there for her death, or for the birth of his son. It’s unclear that he ever saw his son. The orphaned baby lived, by the way, and was raised by his Stewart grandparents.

There are dozens of stories like this one. God’s Garden needs heroes to help tell the stories.

There are over 230 known/assumed graves, and there are perhaps 300 or more total, as there are numerous graves without markers, and death certificates without corresponding graves. Research is ongoing.

As is the case with so many old cemeteries in Texas, this one was doing a very good job at re-foresting. There was damage from roaming cattle, from the elements, from downright vandalism, and from neglect. Many people have worked on this cemetery through the decades.  By 2005, there wasn’t much left, and we have had to put the place back together like a gigantic puzzle. It’ll probably be a lifelong project. The county, the city, and the state are all “hiding” behind the wording in the original 1872 deed, which donated the land “to the community”, and will not claim responsibility for upkeep. No one takes care of it but us few volunteers. Those interred here were good people, and they deserve better. Please consider joining our grass-roots effort. God’s Garden needs heroes.