Details for Creek Cemetery

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5225011088

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Marker Number 11088
Atlas Number 5225011088
Marker Title Creek Cemetery
Index Entry Creek Cemetery
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County Houston
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Subject Codes cemetery
Marker Year 1992
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location 2 miles southeast of Austinio on FM 1280, then .1 mile east on county road
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Text Addison P. and Melissa Hester deeded two acres of land to the Creek Community (then called Georgia Camp) for a school in 1887. Their infant son, Sydney Hester (d. 1889), was the first person interred here. An additional acre was donated in 1930. Creek Cemetery contains the gravesites of many local pioneer settlers, as well as veterans of the American Civil War and World Wars I and II. Neighboring communities, and many local residents who are descendants of pioneers buried here, continue to use and maintain the cemetery.

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