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Historical
Marker Text
Matagorda Cemetery One
of earliest cemeteries in Texas. Founded
soon after town was settled, about 1829, as part of Stephen
F. Austin's colony.
Marked graves numbered 650 in 1969, but interments
exceed 1,000. Inscriptions on stones chronicle frontier hardships. Those buried
include victims of 1862 yellow fever epidemic; soldiers of Texas Revolution War
of 1812, and the Civil War; also Karankawa Indian victims.
Several patriots
of early Texas are buried here as well. Among them is Samuel
Rhoads Fisher, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
(1970) |
Matagorda Cemetery Historical Marker
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, 2009 | |
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