Old Salem Cemetery
Historical Marker Text
This burial ground originally served the
family of T.B. White. His wife Elizabeth (d. 1857) and her father Henry
Kirby (d. 1854) are interred here. White sold ten adjoining acres to the
Salem Association in 1853 as a site for construction of a Masonic lodge
hall and academy. The site became a public cemetery after that date. The
earliest marked grave is that of Jane McCullen (1788-1851). Also buried
here is Francis J. Cooke, a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto. A
cemetery association was established in 1949 to provide maintenance for
the burial ground.
1980
location: FM 1736, one mile west of SH 5, 5
miles north of Hempstead |
