The region around Old Town Spring is home to many old cemeteries featuring many of the founders of the Spring community as well as public figures and veterans of many American wars in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Budde Cemetery has served as a burial location for Spring families for nearly 150 years. The cemetery once sat at the corner of the Budde family property. However, the land and cemetery were split at some point between two different German families with a fence splitting the graves of families on either side. Many of the descendants of Carl Wunsche Sr.—who immigrated from Germany with his wife in 1840 and was a key founder of the Spring community—are laid here. Carl Wunsche Jr., who helped develop schools in Spring and donated the land for Spring Cypress Road, rests here along with many of the founders of the Immanuel Church and their families. The cemetery is also the burial site of former Precinct 7 Constable W. Clinton Harless, who was shot on April 14, 1915, by fugitive Louis Utley as he was fleeing arrest for an accused burglary.
Wunsche Cemetery, located in a small plot of land at I-45 and Cypresswood Drive, features fewer than 20 graves, including Carl Wunsche Sr. and many of his descendants. The oldest marked grave is of a child, 5-year-old M.O. Lorenz Wunsche. The youngest child buried there is the infant son of Julia and Alvin Wunsche, who was born and died on Aug. 9, 1941. Olena Wunsche is also buried at the sight, the granddaughter of Wunsche Sr. who was murdered with her boyfriend while traveling back to Houston on May 6, 1929 at the age of 20. The murder remains unsolved.
Peaceful Rest Cemetery sits on land deeded to the community by J.C. Sellers, a Spring-area doctor in the early 20th century. Sellers donated the land to the black residents of the community for $1 on July 31, 1923. Many of the graves were marked by cement markers, which were made of poorer quality and have since been worn smooth by weather. However, many of the more recent gravestones are ornate, denoting a more prosperous lifestyle. Notable family names from the Spring area that can be found here include Barnet, Lee, Williams, Franklin, King, Bradie, Mays, Sayles, Holland, Philips and Booker.
