Olivia Cemetery
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Olivia Cemetery

Olivia, Calhoun County, Texas, USA

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    Coordinates: 28.64823, -96.45099
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Olivia, Texas, is just a short drive south of the intersection of Texas State Highway 35 and Texas State Highway 172, fourteen miles east of Port Lavaca. Olivia sits on the southwestern tip of a peninsula bound by Keller Bay to its west, Carancahua Bay to its east, and Matagorda Bay to its south. It's a rural setting of pastures, farmhouses, bay houses, and fishing piers.

The community of Olivia was established in 1892 as a Swedish Lutheran colony led by Carl J.E. Haterious of Illinois; he bought 13,565 acres from J.D. Mitchell and named the settlement for his wife Olivia. Among the first settlers were the families of A.G. Bergstrom, Malcolm L. Cavallin, Bengt Fyher, Charles Johnson, John Lind, Nels Larson, Olaf Martinson, J.F. Skogberg, Pete Swenson, Gust Swenson, and Eben Williams.

When the town was laid out, land was set aside for the cemetery near the Swedish Eden Lutheran Church. The earliest marked grave is the 1897 grave of Christena Beata (Larson) Cavallin, wife of Malcolm L. Cavallin.

Olivia, Texas, is just a short drive south of the intersection of Texas State Highway 35 and Texas State Highway 172, fourteen miles east of Port Lavaca. Olivia sits on the southwestern tip of a peninsula bound by Keller Bay to its west, Carancahua Bay to its east, and Matagorda Bay to its south. It's a rural setting of pastures, farmhouses, bay houses, and fishing piers.

The community of Olivia was established in 1892 as a Swedish Lutheran colony led by Carl J.E. Haterious of Illinois; he bought 13,565 acres from J.D. Mitchell and named the settlement for his wife Olivia. Among the first settlers were the families of A.G. Bergstrom, Malcolm L. Cavallin, Bengt Fyher, Charles Johnson, John Lind, Nels Larson, Olaf Martinson, J.F. Skogberg, Pete Swenson, Gust Swenson, and Eben Williams.

When the town was laid out, land was set aside for the cemetery near the Swedish Eden Lutheran Church. The earliest marked grave is the 1897 grave of Christena Beata (Larson) Cavallin, wife of Malcolm L. Cavallin.

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