Kyle Cemetery, Kyle, TX, Claiborne Kyle, Willie Parks, and Polk Roger Kyle black plaque

Kyle, TX, United States

Kyle Cemetery. Many people instrumental in the early development of this area are buried in Kyle Cemetery. Colonel Claiborne Kyle, one of Hays County's original settlers, buried his adopted son, Willie Parks, here in 1849. Although Parks' interment is the first recorded at this site, local tradition

claims that a man found hanging from a live oak tree located within these cemetery grounds was the first person buried here; that tree was thereafter referred to as "the hanging tree." Although it is

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