Recorded in the Minutes of the Boerne City Council - dated October 7, 1867 - is the information that Adam Vogt, for the sum of $1.00, deeded to the City 1 acre and 4.357 varas of land on the San Antonio-Fredericksburg Road (now School Street) for a cemetery.
On January 28, 1867, a notice was sent to the community members who had committed themselves to pay $2.00 for a space 9 feet by 4 ½ feet wide for reserved family graves. It stated that they must pay this money by the end of April, 1867, so that the land could be surveyed and fenced. The City of Boerne has added land to the original cemetery from time to time as it was needed.
The City of Boerne owns, operates and maintains the cemetery. The cemetery is recognized by the State of Texas as an historical place with many early German and English settlers buried there. The oldest part of the cemetery is in Sections 1 and 2. There is a row of graves in the center of these sections that face toward the middle. In Section 2 there is a row that is marked Pauper Row. Many of the inscriptions on these older graves are in German.
Researchers find the Cemetery an excellent source of historical information. It truly reflects the history of Boerne. There is the gravesite of George Wilkins Kendall for whom Kendall County was named and John G. O’Grady, Boerne’s second postmaster from 1861 to 1869. Mr. O'Grady was a signer of the petition to create Kendall County, was a District Clerk and contributed many writings to the Smithsonian Institute. Dr. W. G. Kingsbury, who kept an office in London for nine years in the 1870’s and 80’s to recruit immigrants to this area, is also interred in this section. Then there are the graves of William Dietert, 1831 – 1895, who operated the first business in Boerne, a sawmill and a gristmill. His son went on to be a leader in Boerne, and his grandson, Clarence, to be Mayor. William Dietert signed the petition to organize Kendall County and also served as an early County Judge. Professor Karl Dienger, 1824 – 1899, was the first school teacher in Boerne. Joseph Graham, the first county Judge, has a gravesite in one of the early sections of the cemetery. There are over 335 veterans buried in the cemetery and in their honor, the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Boerne hold a ceremony on Memorial Day and place an American flag on each veteran’s grave.