Canaan Baptist Church established an adjoining burial ground in 1894. Heinrich Engelbrecht donated land for the cemetery in 1895 and additional land in 1902. The earliest marked grave is for Franz Massirer, an Austrian immigrant who died in 1900. No records exist to document earlier burials or their exact locations. In 1928, a steel fence replaced the original barbed wire fence. Engelbrecht, who fought in the Civil War, is the oldest of more than a dozen veterans interred here and honored with a memorial marker. Grave markers include concrete, fieldstone, granite, marble and metal. In 1970, the Canaan Baptist Cemetery Association established perpetual care for the cemetery and received the property from the church. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2010
Canaan Baptist Cemetery
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Canaan Baptist Cemetery is a historical marker in Crawford, McLennan County, dedicated in 2012. It is one of 198 historical markers documented in McLennan County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 224 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.5551, -97.5696 near Crawford. The nearest cataloged historic site is Canaan Baptist Church (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Prairie Chapel School, Preston-McMurry, and Crawford Schools.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5507017315. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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