Naruna Cemetery
Burnetbr/Burnet County, Texasbr/30 59.389' N 98 19.011' Wbr/Directions: Start at the intersection of Hwy 281 and Hwy 29 in Burnet. Go north on Hwy 281 for 12 miles. CR-103 intersects Hwy 281 on the left (west) at this point. Turn left (west) on CR-103 and go 6.6 miles until CR-103 dead ends when joining CR-107. Turn right (north) on CR-107. The cemetery is visible immediately on the right.br/ br/Text: William M. Spitler became Naruna's first postmaster in 1878, and he named the town after the riverboat that carried him to Texas from Tennessee. At that time, Naruna was an agricultural community with store, school, churches, fraternal lodges and this cemetery, one of the few reminders of the town, which was bypassed by the railroad in the 1880's. The cemetery's first marked burial dates to 1841; the land was deeded as a cemetery decades later, in 1886, by J.W. Hoover. Many graves are marked only by plain stones or remembered in stores told to settlers' descendants, who continue to maintain the cemetery.