The Prairie Valley Cemetery is located east of West Point and north of Highway 71 on Prairie Valley Road. It is adjacent to St. Peter Lutheran Church.
Texas Historical Commission Marker at the church:
ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH AND PRAIRIE VALLEY CEMETERY
Sixteen families led by the Rev. R. Osthoff organized [the St. Peter Lutheran] church in 1896. The congregation met at the schoolhouse and Knights of Honor Lodge. Dietrich Hermann Wessels donated two acres for a church and cemetery across the road from the lodge hall in 1900. The first burial was that of Heinrich Georg Wessels in 1900. The St. Petri congregation was recognized by the Missouri Synod in January 1901; the church building was completed in February. Most of the grave inscriptions before the 1930s are in German. Church services were held in German until 1935. Burials in the cemetery are almost all those of church members, including the charter families. With about seventy members and more than 121 graves, both church and cemetery remain active. (1999)
The following list of burials in the Prairie Valley Cemetery was compiled and contributed by Gene L. Freudenberg:
