Elgin Latin Cemetery Association

· Established the Association as a non-profit organization.

· Conducted officer elections and creation of Association By-Laws.

· Clarified legal boundaries and deeds of the Cemetery.

· Established current Cemetery Burial Rates

· Established consumer rules to preserve and maintain the Cemetery.

· Researching automation of the Cemetery database. The Board has given approval to find cemetery mapping software that will enable us to automate the database and find who is in the cemetery and where that person is buried in the cemetery.

· Accumulated and deposited approximately $15,000 in the Association Bank account.

· Completed cemetery survey.

· Identified unknown and neglected marked and unmarked graves.

· Established individual grave section, infant section, pauper section.

· Erected a fence between the cemetery and nearby residences.

· Contacted the City of Elgin and they cleaned the front of the Cemetery, cut down trees and cleaned the drainage ditch.

· Posted signs for no-littering, drinking, dumping.  This stopped most of the drinking, loitering, parking, dumping.

· Patched up the existing roads by placing more road base on them, eliminating most of the large puddles.

· Cut new road in the cemetery, creating section D.

· Held approximately nine cleanups at the cemetery and other work sessions to mark off grave plots.

· Painted the flagpole.

· Inventoried and mapped section C and have identified most of the owners there.

· Placed the Elgin Latin Cemetery monument in the entrance of the cemetery.

· Purchased two chainsaws and two weed eaters to be used for cemetery cleanup.

· Connected water line to the cemetery.

· Some of the most leaning headstones have been straightened out.

Photos of

Elgin Latin Cemetery before Restorations/cleanup by Association

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The Elgin Latin Cemetery is located in the City of Elgin, Texas. Take HWY 290 from Austin to Elgin, turn right at the light at Loop 109 and Hwy 290 onto Ochoa Street. The cemetery is at the end of Ochoa Street.

 

In 2004, the Elgin Latin Cemetery Association was formed by a group of concerned Elgin citizens in the Hispanic community to restore  and maintain the dignity and respect befitting the Elgin Latin Cemetery and those interred here.  The Cemetery at that time was subject to long-term deterioration from natural forces such as weathering, uncontrolled vegetation, as well as  dumping, vandalism and theft. Our goal is to rediscover and give recognition to our heritage by respecting and carefully caring about our Cemetery.  The Association has assumed the responsibility for the care and day-to-day management of the Cemetery under the direction of our President Juan Gonzalez. The association publishes essential information regarding the Cemetery for the benefit of Association members and family members who have relatives and friends interred here. Please visit this web site often to keep abreast of progress of ongoing projects to restore the Cemetery, and to find out how you can help with the renovations.

Since formed in 2004, The Association has made great strides in the following areas:

 

Photos of

Elgin Latin Cemetery after Restorations/cleanup