Cedarhurst Cemetery (La Porte, Texas)

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The City of La Porte was incorporated in 1892. In the early years, there was no public cemetery, but in 1896, plans were set in motion to establish one. That said, it was still several years before the first burial took place. In La Porte Chronicle obituaries of the period, the cemetery didn't seem to have a name. It is called usually called "the new cemetery" or "the new cemetery southwest of town."
In 1907, the Cedarhurst Cemetery Association was formed, and grand plans were published in the La Porte Chronicle. Much work was done to expand and beautify the existing cemetery. However, the Cedarhurst plots were apparently too expensive for many in La Porte. In 1907, a new public cemetery was established, the La Porte Cemetery, just across Little Cedar Bayou from Cedarhurst.

Cedarhurst has since fallen into a deplorable state of neglect. Burials in the cemetery ceased long ago, and nature has largely taken back what was hers before the cemetery was laid out. To make matters worse, erosion into the bayou threatens the cemetery. Some graves near the bayou are already gone.

The land where the few remaining markers are found is now in private hands.

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