| Directions
to Cemeteries in Brown County |
| Historic
Cemeteries in Texas | Historic
Texas Cemetery Program |
One of the responsibilities of the Brown County
Historical Commission is to keep up with all the cemeteries in the county,
some 51 of them. With the help of the Brown County Historical Society,
they inventory and record who is in the cemeteries, encourage Historical
Texas Cemetery markers be applied for and placed in the cemetery.
Four cemeteries in Brown County are now designed as Historical Texas Cemeteries.
They are: Eureka Cemetery, Staley Cemetery, Windham Cemetery and
Zephyr Cemetery.
The folowing books, sold by the Brown
County Historical Society, lists the people who are buried in these
cemeteries. They are:
- "Rural Cemetery Inscriptions of Brown County," by: Hazel
Ellis Wetzel. Price $25.00 plus tax and mailing fee.
- "Rural Cemetery Inscriptions." Supplement includes
51 rural cemeteries updated 1970 - Feb. 2002 Now available. Price:
$25.00 plus tax and mailing fee.
- "Eastlawn Memorial Park, Early, Texas." Recorded
over 4,000 tombstone inscriptions. Surnames listed alphabetically
with location of graves. Complied by BCHS Members. Price $20.00
plus tax and mailing fee. Deaths began in 1951 through Feb. 28, 2001.
- "Zephyr Cemetery Survey Book" - Compiled by local Zephyr Club
members. Price $15.00 plus tax and mailing fee. Indexed by
surnames and maiden names cross-referenced to married names. 1455
deceased names listed with years of birth & death. UPDATED June 20,
2004
- "Salem Cemetery, Brown County, Texas." History and Alphabetical
Listing of persons buried. Price $15.00 plus mailing fee.
- "Fairview Cemetery, Grosvenor, TX," History compiled
by Velma Martin, plus a 14-page Cemetery Plat. Alphabetical INDEX
DATED 8-30-04, listing known deceased from 1878. Price $20,00 or
separately $10.00 each, plus mailing fee.
- "Buffalo-Ebony Cemetery, Mills County," 8 1/2 x 11"
Booklet, 62 pages, printed August 1991.,burial list up-dated September
10, 2002. Price $10.00 plus mailing fee. |