Rosemound Cemetery Burials

Waco, Texas
By Matthew D. Wittmer

This cemetery contains the bodies of the original Waco Davidians, the predecessors to the Branch Davidians from which David’s community was a branch. This is the second site location of this cemetery. It was originally located near the corner of Bishop and Valley Mills on the Davidian’s original Mount Carmel property. I’ve included a photo of the house that exists today near Bishop and Valley Mills where the graves used to be. Geoff Hunt who works at Baylor’s Texas Collection remembers the graves being dug up on this site where the house sits now as he used to ride his bike near the holes after the bodies were moved but before the house was built.

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Davidian grave marker with names of bodies relocated to Rosemound Cemetery in Waco. The original burials were in the cemetery at the old Mount Carmel location (the old cemetery was at 6709 Bishop Drive – see below). April 2013

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The intersection just south of where the Old Mount Carmel Cemetery site was located. April 2013

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A house is now located where the cemetery plots for the Old Mount Carmel site once existed between 1935 and 1957. April 2013

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Opposite side of the Davidian head stone. April 2013

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Names of Davidians buried at the Old Mount Carmel Cemetery are engraved on a single stone at Rosemound Cemetery. Lillian’s name appears twice in the third column. April 21, 2014