Prairie Grove Cemetery

Prairie Grove was part of a land grant made to Andrés Varela by the Mexican government in 1830. Over the next century, generations of farming and ranching families called the area home. The population of the Prairie Grove community began to decline by the 1930s.

It is assumed that the Prairie Grove community began using the land that is now the cemetery for burial purposes around 1859. The original deed dates the official use of the Prairie Grove Cemetery in 1881. The cemetery association has burial plot deeds and land deeds from the 1910s to the present.

Memorial services and homecomings have been a part of the cemetery’s history since its creation. Families would gather on Good Friday to work in the cemetery and have picnic lunches in the cemetery grounds.  Today, the Prairie Grove Cemetery Association maintains the cemetery and still holds a homecoming service every year, now the first Saturday of May.