Lexington Memorial Cemetery

A Methodist Episcopal church, locally known as the German Methodist Church, was organized in Lexington in 1882. The church purchased two acres of land for a cemetery in November 1898. The first recorded burials on this site were those of two-year-old Reinhold Retzlaff and four-year-old Gustav Hillegeist in the spring of 1899. Also interred here are Civil War veterans Bernhard Retzlaff (who fought for both the Union and the Confederacy), Jacob Seifert, and Gustav Urbantke, who served as a lay minister for forty years. Others buried here include members of the Bauer, Grusendorf, Hillegeist, Hornung, Letterman, Otto, Peterson, Raesener, and Raschke families. All were charter members of the church. (1999)

Lexington Memorial Cemetery is a historical marker in Lexington, Lee County, dedicated in 1998. It is one of 47 historical markers documented in Lee County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 110 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 30.4213, -97.0005 near Lexington. The nearest cataloged historic site is Lexington Schools (historical marker), about 0.5 miles away. Others within a short drive include The First Baptist Church of Lexington, United Methodist Church of Lexington, and Lexington.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5287012026. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.