Details for Sweeny Cemetery
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5039009598
Data
| Marker Number | 9598 |
| Atlas Number | 5039009598 |
| Marker Title | Sweeny Cemetery |
| Index Entry | Sweeny Cemetery |
| Address | Main St. |
| City | Sweeny |
| County | Brazoria |
| UTM Zone | 15 |
| UTM Easting | 235788 |
| UTM Northing | 3216198 |
| Subject Codes | cemetery |
| Marker Year | 1966 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Sweeny Cemetery, close to entrance and flagpole facing Main St. (FM 524) |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 14" x 24" |
| Marker Text | Begun as family burial ground when John Sweeny, early landowner, member of Stephen F. Austin's colony, chose this site for burial of his young daughter, Freedonia, 1833. In use ever since by the neighborhood. Has graves of veterans of all wars since Texas Revolution. 1966 |