FAYETTEVILLE, FAYETTE COUNTY, TEXAS
29°54'02"N 96°42'11"W
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The Eilers Cemetery is located on what was the old Laffere place three miles west of Fayetteville on County Road 224 off of FM 955. A letter from Sonja Fojtik To Walter Freytag dated June 8, 1966 states: "Hinrich and Augusta Eilers are my maternal great-grandparents and the other five Eilers' are their children. Franz Hoffmann lived and worked as a helper on the Eilers' farm. The Luke's were great-grandparents of my mother's second cousin . . . and are related by marriage . . . Augusta Eilers and Johanne Luke were sisters . . . [According to Kathy Carter, this last statement may be incorrect as Johanne's stone says here maiden name was Rabe].
Kathy Carter and Helen Muras of the Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives inventoried this cemetery on November 7, 1988. All the stones were painted white, except the Luke stones, which were painted gray. Pete Fridell photographed the grave stones in August 2011 and they are shown above and linked to the names of those buried here. He states that there was once an ornate iron arch as you entered the cemetery that had "Eilers" on it, but it is now gone.
