Becker Cemetery

ALSO KNOWN AS BELL CEMETERY

NEAR WINEDALE, FAYETTE COUNTY, TEXAS 

300411N 963903W







Located on private property about four miles south of Round Top on FM 1457 near Wolff Road, this cemetery property is usually overgrown with weeds and brush. There are twenty-three graves with legible stones and twenty-four marked, but unidentified graves. The oldest marked grave is from 1853 for a six-year-old child, Mary Etzel.

This site is referred to under several different names: Sutton, Fricke, Becker, and Bell. County maps denote it as Becker while Joe Cole called it Bell in the 1950s [Joe Cole #70E].



Jon Todd Koenig contributed the following list of burials in the Becker Cemetery, along with notes from his research.

Surname
Given Name
Maiden Name
Birth
Death
Notes
Becker
Heinrich Sr.
2/15/1828
8/30/1910
Son of Joachim Becker and Marie Elise Voelkel, brother to Justine Becker Weyand (see Weyand Cemetery), husband of Katharina Treude Becker, Father to Heinrich Jr., Adolph and August Becker and Emma, Marie, Lina, and Minna Becker.
Becker
Katharine
Treude
5/10/1834
7/6/1903
Wife of Heinrich Becker, Mother to Heinrich Jr., Adolph and August Becker and Emma, Marie and Lina Becker.
Bell
Annie
Unknown
2/17/1822
11/9/1896
Bell
Charlie
10/29/1857
5/30/1858
Bell
Infant
Bell
10/31/1861
10/31/1861
Infant of John and Annie Bell
Bell
John P.
1/12/1820
5/5/1899
Bell
Rufus Finley
8/8/1848
10/22/1859
Son of John and Annie Bell
Etzel
Elise
Unknown
9/10/1815
1/13/1886
Etzel
John
4/20/1853
12/20/1853
Etzel
Mary
9/1/1847
5/9/1853
Etzel
William Sr.
6/24/1829
9/15/1889
Etzel
William Jr.
4/1/1861
10/5/1867
Giese
Edwin
6/15/1872
1/11/1917
Husband of Lina Becker Giese
Giese
Lina
Becker
7/15/1874
1/14/1947
Daughter of Heinrich Becker and Katharina Treude Becker, Wife of Edwin Giese
Maeckel
Carl
7/23/1811
6/9/1890
Birth date is not on stone; middle initial is G. [see note below]
Maeckel
Herman
1858
12/18/1890
Birth year is not on stone
Maeckel
Johanna R.
Unknown
1820
3/15/1890
Birth year is not on stone
Marlow
Edward W.
1/31/1839
12/17/1870
Sutton
William Jr.
12/14/1782
4/14/1870
Thigpen
Martha
Unknown
11/8/1834
11/5/1890
Wied
Dewey
2/14/1899
8/28/1900
Son of Ernst and Emma Wied
Wied
Emma
Becker
3/1/1861
5/22/1944
Daughter of Heinrich Sr. and Katharine Becker
Wied
Ernst
12/9/1857
1/13/1933

Dates of birth for the Maeckel family come from Edith Betts

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