Bock Cemetery

BILA HORA, LAVACA COUNTY, TEXAS


The Bock Cemetery is near the Bila Hora community. There are only eleven markers, but there is evidence of many more. Names at the cemetery include Bock, Dreyer, Laas, Mertz, and Weller. The obituary for Mrs. Austin Higgins Baker indicates that she was also buried here.

See an obituary for Charles Bock, a Texas State Ranger, who was buried here in 1913.

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Weller, Anna March 8, 1835 July 4, 1881 maiden name Schumacher
Weller, August February 1, 1829 December 9, 1888 wife Anna, born Salzuffeln Lippe Detmold
Weller, John Clark March 21, 1889 July 8, 1889
Mertz, Henry March 16, 1872 August 19, 1888 Heinrich Kasper Mertz son of Richard and Annie, 1880 census and Zion Lutheran Church Death Records
Mertz, Dietrich June 24, 1842 September 10, 1885
Buck, Chas., Sr. January 11, 1832 February 2, 1913 wife Catherine, name should be Bock; born in Verncen Braunschweig; came to US in 1843
Buck, Catherine August 5, 1838 September 16, 1905  nee Pelzer
Dreyer, Amelia June 22, 1865 October 26, 1871
Weller, Louise S. April 22, 1860 January 12, 1876 daughter or August Weller, information from 1860 census Lavaca County, Texas
Dreyer, A.H. March 10, 1811 January 20, 1880 listed in Death Records of Zion Lutheran Church, Anton Heinrich Dreyer
Laas, Henrietta February 9, 1812 September 14, 1878 born Gurau, Schleisien

 

 

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