Six Confedreate Soldiers Buried at old Nuecestown Cemetery

I’d been doing some research on a historical building of my hometown of Robstown, TX. During my research I decided to visit a cemetery a few miles away that I’d always been curious about. I didn’t even know the name of the cemetery before I visited. Once there I noticed some of the gravestones had written “Nueces-Town.” I knew of no town by that name so I made a note-to- self to look into it further. Not surprisingly I discovered that the cemetery is named Nuecestown Cemetery because it served the original residents of the Nuecestown community. Nuecestown was founded in 1852, but its decline began when the St. Louis, Brownsville, and Mexico Railway bypassed the town in 1905. At present the only remains of the old town is the preserved schoolhouse and the cemetery. During my visit to the cemetery I noticed some confederate flags and so I went over to take a look and discovered that buried at this site are six confederate veterans of the Civil War. Here are the pictures.