Edward Jenkins League. Approximately 40 African American burials starting in 1917 and ending shortly after. Overgrown, abandoned and not taken care of.

Directions: Going West from the town of Bastrop, turn left on Hwy 304, go to the Hills Prairie Community and turn left on Hills Prairie Road. The cemetery is in the woods on the right, after the curve in the road to the right.

History: Hills Prairie Cemetery, serving the black community, has been long overgrown and reclaimed by woods to the point of being virtually invisible from the adjacent roadway. A September 2021 visit found the cemetery to have returned to a wild state, being not only overgrown but full of spiders and animal holes that could house snake dens. It has a certain beauty but any visitors should wear protective gear. No sign of any engraved stone marker was discovered. Many of the deaths occurred during the Spanish Flu years.

Only one death certificate was found that had Hills Prairie Cemetery as place of burial, with the rest stating Hills Prairie (the community). It is believed that Hills Prairie Cemetery began being disused about the time that the much larger Clearview Cemetery, about a mile to the northwest, opened in 1920. Clearview Cemetery served the same community and was even referred to as Hills Prairie Cemetery by many in the following years, including in death certificates and obituaries. Raspberry Kellough Cemetery and Antioch Cemetery (with church) are other black cemeteries in the Hills Prairie area being used in the same timeframe.

There are a few rusted, unreadable remains of temporary grave markers that likely indicate burials some decades after 1920. While it is difficult to say with any individual case, as a person may choose to be buried with family even in a disused, overgrown cemetery, it becomes increasingly likely as the years passed after 1920 that any death certificate or obituary that refers to Hills Prairie Cemetery in Bastrop is actually referring to Clearview Cemetery. Those having Hills Prairie, TX on their death certificates could be buried here or in Kellough, Antioch, or Clearview Cemeteries.

2/8/1999, Vol 967 page 702 the land went to Minifred Trigg, Trustee for Kleber B Trigg and trustee for Margaret Julia Trigg under last will and testament. Same 119 Acres being part of 309 acres from W A McCord to Annie P Erhard on 5/16/1929, Volume 86 page 383 and 6.55 acres from Nolan Glass & Doris Glass Hefner to Kleber Trigg Jr and wife Minifred Boyles Trigg in Volume 179/517. W M McCord on his death held many notes from Bastrop County citizens. None of these deeds mention the cemetery.