Texas Star Urns

This collection is meant for the Texan in every sense, whether they were born and raised among family who have occupied the same land for generations or the person who moved there for work and never once considered leaving. It honors those whose roots run deep enough that their plots are already spoken for, and those who moved away but spent the rest of their lives telling everyone where they were truly from.

These pieces are for the person whose life was defined by the place they called home. It is for the one who made a commitment to the land and the community, ensuring that their connection to that soil remained a permanent part of who they were.

For many, the state is a personal conviction rather than just an address, and it is an identity that stays with a person even if they live forty years elsewhere. The star is a constant in that life, appearing on everything from belt buckles and gates to the sides of barns. This sense of place is often tied to the history of the land itself, marked by long family lines and the plainness of a life lived close to the earth.

You may find that these designs are the first thing anyone would say when remembering them. They reflect a spirit that was as steadfast as the landscape and as enduring as the traditions held by those who chose the state as their own.

Each piece is cast aluminum, featuring either a Texas star or a Dallas star engraved into the metal. The collection is available in painted finishes or in a hand-applied enamel with hand-detailed silver bands, and every urn includes a threaded screw-top lid and a felt base. To allow for different ways of remembering, the collection is offered in full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes.

To make the piece even more personal, we offer the option to have a name and dates engraved directly into the surface with a two-tone design. This allows their name to be an integral part of the metal, mirroring the way their life was woven into the history of the places they loved.

The star is older than statehood. On January 25, 1839, the Congress of the Republic of Texas adopted the Lone Star flag from legislation introduced by Senator William H. Wharton the previous December, and nobody is certain who designed it. When Texas became the twenty-eighth state on December 29, 1845, the national flag simply carried on as the state flag.

The state flag code says the single star stands for all of Texas and for unity as one, which is where the nickname came from. For a family, the design on the urn is where the person was from, and the fact that they never stopped saying so.

Source: Wikipedia, Flag of Texas

If their life was marked by a steadfast spirit and a profound commitment to the land, then a sibling or a friend will see in this star exactly what they would have wanted. It is a recognition of the identity they held so close, a detail that anyone who knew them would immediately associate with their name.

A family pictures them standing on that familiar ground, looking out over the fields they loved.

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