Baytown Area Cemeteries

FromAt Rest. A Historical Directory of Harris County, Texas, Cemeteries (1822-2001)

Including Burial Customs and Other Interesting Facts, With a Listing of Past and Present
Communities, Funeral Home and Monument Companies 1
st
Edition 1994; 2
nd
Edition
enlarged Irom 307 to 509 cross-indexed listings Compiled by Trevia Wooster Beverly
(Tejas Publications & Research, Houston, 2001)

Arthur-Hale Family Cemetery (Point Pleasant)
Baker Cemetery
Bayland Orphanage Cemetery
Baytown Memorial Cemetery
Burnet, Hannah Este gravesite (Oakland Plantation)
Busch Family Cemetery (but on the Chambers County side)
Cedar Bayou Cemetery
Cedar Bayou Baptist Cemetery
Cedar Bayou Masonic Cemetery
Cedar Bayou Methodist Cemetery
Cedar Bayou Negro
Cedarcrest Cemetery
Earthman Memory Gardens (Memory Gardens oI Baytown)
Evergreen Plantation (Gaillard & Mitchell Family Cemetery)
Gaillard & Mitchell Family Cemetery (Evergreen Plantation)
Goose Creek Cemetery
Hill oI Rest Cemetery
Lynchburg Cemetery
Magnolia Cemetery
Memory Garden oI Baytown (Earthman)
Osgood Cemetery
Point Pleasant (Arthur-Hale Family Cemetery)
Note that all the Cedar Bayou cemeteries are in same general location, undivided by any
physical barrier

19 ARTHUR-HALE CEMETERY: 1853 6 graves On Bayway Drive, on Exxon

property, Baytown, Texas On land originally owned by William Scott, this cemetery has
been associated with the cemetery at Point Pleasant
6;
This seems doubtIul as the son,
GW Scott, sold 251 acres to J F Overland in 1848 with 100 acres oI the land then
passing to Mrs G M Mitchell in 1867, and in turn 17 acres went to James Mitchell in
1869, explaining the alternate names oI Overland Bay and Mitchell Bay The cemetery
plot oI 28 by 25 Ieet was conveyed in 1894 to Thomas and Hugh Arthur Two rows oI
graves: |top| Elizabeth Hale Sept 13, 1881 July 8, 1895; Alexander
Benjamin Hale Oct 20, 1807 Sept 12, 1885 CSA; William C Arthur b 1816, KY d
1882 CSA (second row) Josephine Arthur (wiIe oI Hugh) born June 1, 1876, married
July 17, 1890, died April 1, 1909; Mary E Wise April 11, 1819 June 27, 1853; Irine
Arthur (dau oI Hugh) born Mar 7, 1891 died June 28, 1894 Hugh Arthur remarried and
moved to Morgan`s Point Alexander Benjamin Hale`s wiIe, Susannah Jane Guess/Guest,
died ca 1910 in Energy, Comanche County, Texas See 'Small Bayway Drive Plot the
Baytown Sun 19 Feb 1976; '19
th
Century Cemetery, The Baytown Sun, 19 Feb 1976;
'Industry surrounds graves, The Baytown Sun, 30 Jan 1986; 'Historic graveyard near
docks,' The Baytown Sun, 20 May 1990 Exxon/Mobil dedicated a bronze plaque on
March 2, 2001 'Preserving part oI state`s history, ReIinery tends to cemetery, Houston
Chronicle 04 Sep 2001 (photograph) 500Y

22 BAKER CEMETERY: Baytown; East Harris County, South oI I-10, 'end oI Baker
Road which runs east to west Irom North Main to Bayway Drive Exact location not
determined 500, 501

31 BAYLAND ORPHANAGE CEMETERY Baytown TX The Orphanage was
Iounded Ior children oI deceased ConIederate soldiers, chartered in 1866 Texas patriot,
Dr Ashbel Smith (b 1805 CT 1886) was the Iirst superintendent, Iollowed by Henry
Flavel Gillette (b 1816 CT 1896) Historical Marker at the present-day site oI Bayland
Park oII HWY 146 at the mouth oI Goose Creek Stream A letter in the HMRC Iiles
Irom Louis van Meldert, Baytown, Texas, dated 25 May 1962 states 'there was also a
cemetery located nearby which has disappeared That statement is substantiated in
Suffer the Children. A History of the Confederate Orphanage at Bayland, 1867 to May
1918. The Isenhour Iamily Irom Minnesota purchased the property in 1897 From a
'List oI Orphans at the Home Irom its Establishment to the Present Time (1871) the
Iollowing are shown as having died while at the home No record has been uncovered
that these graves were moved, and now there is no visible evidence oI this little
graveyard 541E
Henry Arto, 12, Harris Co: 22 Mar 1870 20 Oct 1870 Died
John W Coldiron, - , Austin Co: 11 Mar 1869 Oct 1869 Died
John Campbell, 2, Galveston Co: 17 Aug 1869 Sep 1870 Died
Harry Duke, 2, Harris Co: 01 Apr 1869 Oct 1869 Died
Robert Le--, 6, Harris Co: 14 May 1868 Jun 1868 Died
William Moss, 2, Grimes Co: 01 Apr 1868 11 Aug 1869 Died
Mrs Frances Moss, 35, Grimes Co: 01 Apr 1868 25 Feb 1870 Died
Thomas Wilson, 13, Polk Co: 23 Feb 1870 Apr 1870 Drowned


32 BAYTOWN MEMORIAL CEMETERY: Incorrect name given in current Key Map
Atlas book See Earthman Memory Gardens Cemetery 461K


74 BURNET, Hannah Este (1800-1858): On the old Oakland Plantation
6;
, was the home
oI David G Burnet Gravesite between two homes, 612-614 Burnet Drive, Lakewood
Addition (old Wooster community
6;
), Baytown WiIe oI David G Burnet, President Ad
Interim oI Texas Historical Marker erected in 1936 'HANNAH ESTE BURNET Born
in Morristown, NJ December 8, 1800, Died in 1858 WiIe oI David G Burnet,
President Ad Interim oI Texas March 16 to October 22, 1836 Two oI her babies are
buried beside her, according to the Burnet Bible See 'Lynchburg home oI Texas` Iirst
president The Baytown Sun, 30 JAN 1886; 'Historical marker lodged in subdivision
Houston Chronicle 13 Apr 1986 See Texas History Car;ed in Stone, William Moses
Jones, 1958 500J Note: David G Burnet lived his last years in Galveston; he died on
05 Dec 1870, and was buried with Masonic rites in the Perry Iamily plot; 1871 his
remains were transIerred to Magnolia Grove Cemetery It has been erroneously reported
to have been still later reburied in the State Cemetery in Austin, Texas President Burnett
is, in Iact, buried in the Sherman plot at Lakeview Cemetery in Galveston 500J

77 BUSCH CEMETERY: In Baytown city limits but actually across Cedar Bayou and in
Chambers County 462Y


86 CEDAR BAYOU BAPTIST CEMETERY: Baytown 1874 OII Ferry Road, behind
and across gully Irom Masonic Cemetery to the east Few Markers, originally used as the
Parker Family Cemetery; earliest graves no longer marked; some were moved Cemetery
now maintained by Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church Recorded: Cedar Bayou
Cemeteries, Baytown Genealogical Society, 1981; Cedar Bayou Baptist Church. Record
Book B. 1876-1896, Victoria L Klehn, Baytown Genealogical Society, 1988 502P

87 CEDAR BAYOU MASONIC CEMETERY: Baytown Ca 1860s by the Cedar
Bayou Masonic Lodge #321; spaces reserved Ior lodge Iamilies; records kept by the
Lodge with Walt Noland current Cemetery Secretary Cemetery is immediately to the
north oI the Cedar Bayou Methodist Cemetery Paul U Lee, grandson oI General Robert
E Lee and early Iuneral home director, buried here For history oI this Lodge, see
'Cedar Bayou Masonic Hall, House oI the PioneersHouston Chronicle, 11 May 1947
(Texas Historical Marker); 'The pioneer (Joseph William Ellender) (Historical Marker
Ceremony), History Highlights series, The Baytown Sun 01 Sep 1985; 'Cedar Bayou Can
Claim The Dean OI Texas Poets` (John Peter Sjolander) History Highlights series, The
Baytown Sun 05 Feb 1981; 'Poet man oI land and sea (John Peter Sjolander w/photo),
History Highlights, The Baytown Sun, 15 Jul 1984; 'Masons active here The Baytown
Sun 30 JAN 1986; 'Lodge marks 128
th
year The Baytown Sun 22 Mar 1987; 'Sol and
Sam in Bayland Guards (Solomon Lawrence and Sam Houston Jr), History Highlights
series, The Baytown Sun 08 Feb 1987 The only known '3nterse cemetery in Harris
County Recorded: Cedar Bayou Cemeteries, Baytown Genealogical Society, 1981
502P

88 CEDAR BAYOU METHODIST CEMETERY: 2714 Ferry Road, Baytown TX

77520 281427-4754 Oldest oI the Iive Cedar Bayou cemeteries, it dates back to 1844,
the Iounding date oI the Church located on Ferry Road Cemetery is located to the
southeast oI the Church, with the oldest existing marker that oI Sarah E Scudder, 1850
Some graves reportedly moved to Cedarcrest Recorded: Cedar Bayou Cemeteries,
Baytown Genealogical Society, 1981 502P

89 CEDAR BAYOU NEGRO CEMETERY: Baytown Black Was on south side oI the
Cedar Bayou Methodist Cemetery; reportedly moved to eastern side oI Cedar Bayou in
Chambers County 502P

90 CEDARCREST CEMETERY: 3010 Ferry Road, Baytown TX 77521; 281- 427-
2123 1924 present; some reinterments located here A mausoleum crypt and niche
diagram was Iiled in 1965 Harris County Deed Record Vol 132, page 13, and there is a
'Little Arlington section Ior military burials Cemetery records housed on-site; research
by oIIice personnel only Recorded: Cedar Bayou Cemeteries, Baytown Genealogical
Society |1981| 502P

141 EARTHMAN MEMORY GARDENS CEMETERY: 8624 Garth Road, Baytown
TX 77521; 281-421-1288 Jun 1953 - Owned by Earthman`s; garden type; Catholic
section called Christus Gardens; mausoleum; crematorium Records housed on-site;
available Ior personnel searches with phone requests preIerred 461K


158 EVERGREEN PLANTATION CEMETERY: aka Gaillard-Mitchell Family
Cemetery 1875-1915 Baytown 77520 Evergreen Plantation was located on Galveston
Bay, purchased by Dr Ashbel Smith Irom Moseley Baker Ior $5,000 in 1847 Near the
mouth oI Goose Creek where Thomas Gaillard established Gaillard`s Landing when the
Iamily came Irom Mississippi in 1869 Now on Chevron property south oI old Pelly, on
#146 near Lee Drive 541L


183 GAILLARD-MITCHELL FAMILY CEMETERY: Baytown; turn right oII Hwy
146 on road Iormerly going to Hogg Island Causeway; located at the west end oI Lee
Drive 1875-1915 In the heart oI the Pelly-Goose Creek Oil Field surrounded by a
Iour-Ioot high concrete Ience and not accessible to visitors Thomas B Gaillard (1824-
1889) Co A, 1
st
Regt MS InIantry, CSA, brought his Iamily here Irom Mississippi in
1869 Fred W Gaillard was the Iirst Iamily member to be buried here (marker notes he
drowned on 24 Jul 1875 at the age oI 21); others were Mary Martha Gaillard, died at age
71 in 1900; Foster Gaillard, died 1889 at age 15; Frederick Ralston Mitchell, 1895; Mary
M Gaillard, 1877; J F Mitchell, 1909; Sidney Gaillard, 'inIant, and Jennie E Mitchell,
1915 A shipping point, it was known as Gaillard`s landing, and the homesite was east oI
the landing See 'Baytown Pioneers Buried in Goose Creek Field The Baytown Sun 04
Dec 1974; 'Industries surrounds graves The Baytown Sun, 30 JAN 1986 Photographs,
pg 83, Pictorial History oI the Baytown Area (The Baytown Sun, 1995) 541F

199 GOOSE CREEK CEMETERY: Baytown Third Street, north oI East Fayle Street
Early Potter`s Field on western halI; see Magnolia Cemetery ConIederates 501Y

210 HANSON FAMILY CEMETERY: 1891-present 3403 Massey-Tompkins Road,
Baytown TX 77521-2838; 281422-7826 Hanson Family Cemetery Trust Fund Records
housed on site 501 ? 502

227 HILL OF REST CEMETERY: 1600 Market Street, Baytown (77520) Across Irom
Robert E Lee High School Originally the Altman Iamily plot (in their cow pasture),
which dates back to the 1910`s, the Iamily gave permission Ior condemned killer Carl
Dobbins (his debt to society paid in 1935) to be buried here His epitaph reads 'The
wages oI sin in death (Romans 6:23) Recorded: Hill of Rest Cemetery, Baytown, Texas,
Baytown Genealogical Society (no date given) 501W


263 JACKSON CEMETERY: Baytown Aka Roberts Cemetery
6;
, adjoins the Osgood
Cemetery
6;
in the Cedar Bayou Area oI Baytown 502C

310 MAGNOLIA CEMETERY: (Goose Creek) Baytown Between 3
rd
and 4
th
Streets,
north oI East Fayle Origin unknown First dedicated public cemetery, 1917, ca 5 acres
donated by Thomas Wright during a Ilu epidemic, now known as Magnolia Cemetery
1938 order Irom City oI Baytown Ior no Iurther burials; some graves moved to other
cemeteries Apparently BM Holland (dec`d) purchased the land aIter the 1938 city order
was given; ca 14 markers in 1973, and by 1985 there were several new markers in
evidence See 'Graveyard has become a political battleground Houston Chronicle 26
Mar 1980; 'History Is Re-enacted At Magnolia Cemetery The Highlands (Texas) Star
22 Nov 1984 Recorded: Texas Cemeteries, Lum-Roark Chapter No 2243, United
Daughters oI the ConIederacy (1986), Jo Nell Carroll Cleveland Goose Creek Magnolia
Cemetery, Cleveland Baytown Genealogical Society 501Y

336 MEXICAN CEMETERY: Baytown Paul U Lee Funeral Home records indicate an
InIant Esquibal b/d 04 Jan 1936 |Jose Esquibal and Marcilina Compose| buried here No
location given

346 MORGAN FAMILY CEMETERY: Baytown (Harris and Chambers counties)
Cemetery is in Chambers County in the woods beyond the north end oI Cottonwood in
the Pinehurst subdivision DiIIicult to Iind

356 MY FATHER Pre-1892 Lone gravesite believed to be that oI Tallcot Patching
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on
Scott`s Bay, Baytown See 'Baytown Area Grave |with photo| Baytown Sun 15 Jul
1971; |photo| 'The Vault Baytown Sun 12 Jun 1980 See 'By the Side oI A Texas
Road, The Tefas Ga:ette 4:1:1999; also see WOOSTER FAMILY CEMETERY
qv

A
photograph oI this slab was used on the cover oI the Iirst edition oI At Rest Now under
water, was at the end oI Mapleton in the Brownwood Subdivision 499V


367 OAKLAND PLANTATION: Baytown, Texas See Burnet, Hannah Este gravesite
Also buried in this Iamily cemetery are a Mrs Walker who died oI yellow Iever in 1853
and the wiIe oI Edward E Este The Burnet Bible also lists the names oI several slaves
were also buried here ReIerence: Da;id G. Burnet, First President of Texas by Mary
Whatley Clarke, 1969, Pemberton Press, Austin 500J


377 OSGOOD CEMETERY: On Fox Drive at Bayou Boulevard, adjoining Roberts
Cemetery
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in the Cedar Bayou area oI Baytown Seven known burials, maintained by
the Iamily James Osgood (1844-1907) Pvt TX State Troops CSA See Baytown Sun 27
Feb 1975 Obituaries: Mrs Dora Ellen Wright Osgood died Feb 26, 1975, at age 89
Burial in the Osgood Iamily cemetery near the Sjolander estate at Cedar Bayou She was
born at Cedar Bayou and died in Houston Recorded: Cedar Bayou Cemeteries, 1981,
Baytown Genealogical Society Cemeteries of Baytown Vol 1, Baytown Genealogical
Society, 1981 502C

384 PARKER FAMILY CEMETERY: Cedar Bayou (Baytown) See Cedar Bayou
Baptist Cemetery 502P

386 PATCHING, TALCOTT gravesite: Died between Dec 30, 1838 when he signed
Ior property in his wiIe`s name (Clarrisse Patching) and Jan 10, 1861 when Mrs Patching
made her mark on a deed with her daughter and son-in-law, David and Clarissa Drysdale
Patching and wiIe, Clarrisa, owned land in the Nathaniel Lynch League that was later
purchased by Q A Wooster Upon the death oI Wooster`s little son, Elmer, October 8,
1894 Q A Wooster mentions that they will bury Elmer next to 'the big slab, in what
would become the Wooster Family Cemetery
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.
I believe this slab marked as 'My
Father
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is that oI Talcott Patching ReIerence Abstract of Title No. 80339, Brownwood
Subdi;ion of Wooster, Nov 10, 1938; copy in possession oI Trevia Wooster Beverly and
at Clayton Library Center Ior Genealogical Research in Houston The Drysdales moved
to New York, but Mrs Drysdale returned at least once to visit her Iather`s grave,
according to Iamily accounts



412 POINT PLEASANT CEMETERY: Family burial ground oI the William Scott
Iamily Land originally owned by Scott (organizer oI the Lynchburg Volunteers oI
Texas Revolutionary Iame), a member oI Austin`s 300 whose homestead, Point Pleasant,
was established prior to 1827 and located on Goose Creek between his upper and lower
leagues, near the present site oI the Exxon Docks It is probably that Scott (d 1837) and
his wiIe, Mary Hannah (d 1839) were both buried here, as probably was a nephew,
James S Scott, Jr who died in Goose Creek (1845) Jean La Delle Epperson, in her
unpublished manuscript on William Scott states 'a Iamily cemetery on Point Pleasant
6;

but there are no tombstones and the cemetery`s exact location is now lost A son, G W
Scott sold 251 acres to J F Overland in 1848 with 100 acres oI the land then passing to
Mrs G M Mitchell in 1867, and in turn 17 acres went to James Mitchell in 1869, and
then a small plot oI 28 by 25 Ieet was conveyed in 1894 to Thomas and Hugh Arthur Ior
a burial ground See Arthur-Hale Cemetery There is a Texas Historical marker Ior
'Point Pleasant, Homesite oI William Scott dedicated in 1990 500Y

421 ROBERTS CEMETERY: Baytown, Texas aka Jackson Cemetery Black Adjoins
Osgood Cemetery
6;
on Bayou Boulevard, Cedar Bayou area Maintained by Iamily
members Recorded: Cedar Bayou Cemeteries, 1981, Baytown Genealogical Society
Cemeteries of Baytown Vol 1, Baytown Genealogical Society 502C

424 ROBINSON CEMETERY, Baytown Found listed on death certiIicate, 1969
Negro

464 SHEPHERD FAMILY CEMETERY Baytown First known burial 1876 In 1968
this was on US Steel property; the Iollowing were disinterred and removed to Cedar
Crest Cemetery
6;
:
Sarah Amelia Shepherd 01 Jun 1876 06 Jun 1876; Amelia C Rose
Shepherd 1888-1944; InIant Shepherd (no dates); William Rose Shepherd 1870-1885

498 TILTON FAMILY CEMETERY: Within the Baytown city limits but actually
across Cedar Bayou in Chambers County Texas Historical Marker 502H

537 WHITING FAMILY CEMETERY: Baytown OII Old Market Street, on the Goose
Creek stream side at old Busch Landing Disappeared into water and time 501X

543 WISE-ARTHUR-HALE CEMETERY: See Arthur-Hale, Baytown 500Y


547 WOOSTER FAMILY CEMETERY: Lost; now under water Baytown, Texas Part
oI the old Wooster community, at end oI Mapleton Drive in area now known as
Brownwood, Lot 1, Block K, Map oI Wooster (Deed Vol 65, Pg 274-275) Prior to
purchase oI the land by QA Wooster in 1892, a burial site with large slab marker,
simply inscribed MY FATHER
6;
First Iamily burial 08 Oct 1894, son Martin Elmer
Wooster, born 11 Feb 1884 Other Iamily burials included wiIe, Catherine Morella
Monroe Wooster 01 Jul 1839 14 Nov 1900; Wooster subsequently deeded the plot to
Harris County Ior use oI a cemetery Ior whites only Daughter, Dora Evabell Wooster
Richmond 14 Apr 1878 22 Jul 1906 and later Wooster himselI, 04 Sep 1839 21 Feb
1908, were buried here Several unmarked graves, children oI Wooster relatives Emily
Ericson 18 Jan 24 Jan 1924, Ordered by Walter Ericson |Paul U Lee Funeral Home
records| InIant oI WW Adams oI Baytown, d 07 Aug 1927 Unrelated: InIant son
Oiliver d 12 Sep 1931, ordered by JL Stowe oI Crosby, Texas |Paul U Lee Funeral
Home record| Grandson and Great-grandson buried here, moved to White Cemetery
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in
Highlands when subsidence took the land: Ray Brown Wooster 22 Jan 1904 27 Aug
1960 and John Henry Wooster 15 Dec 1941 18 Apr 1962 Markers only oI Q A
Wooster and Catherine M Wooster were placed on Wooster plot at Cedarcrest
Cemetery
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in 1991 Recorded: Stirpes XX:2:1980 Contact: Trevia Wooster Beverly,
2507 Tannehill Drive, Houston TX 77008-3052 713864-6862
treviawbeverlycomcastnet 499V