The historic pioneer-era cemetery of Red Rock, Bastrop County, Texas. Still the resting place of descendants of the pioneers.
Old Red Rock grew with the crossing of the Austin-Port Lavaca Stagecoach Road (FM 812) in the Bastrop-Gonzalez Trail now Cnty Rd 229. In 1892 the town moved one mile east to the newly laid railroad. This site with more than 370 graves is the burial place of pioneer settlers, including trail drivers and veterans of the Texas Revolution, the Mexican War and the Civil War. The first documented burial was in 1864. Earlier graves may have been lost when home made sandstone markers were removed. The cemetery is maintained by descendants of area pioneers.
This cemetery is an example of how last names change spelling, I. E. Tally and Talley, Sarrell, Sorrells, and Sorrell, Reinhardt and Reinhart. While surveying this cemetery, several people stopped just to visit and show their children the pioneer grave sites. There is a mailbox for visitors to leave their name and place of residence. Surveyed 11/1999.
