The cemetery is all that’s left of this rural 19th century town located in the vast Texas Hill Country.

It’s an almost disconcertingly quiet place, and it showcases the rare kind of serenity that is only vaguely disrupted by a passing car on the highway or the anxiously shrill call of a bird. The sign depicted in my photograph marks the cemetery, proudly informing passersby that it has been around since 1881.