Cedar Grove Cemetery
Trinity, Trinity County, Texas
Marker Inscription
The first documented burial in the cemetery, that of Phebe A. Martin, took place in 1875, three years after the town of Trinity was laid out on the George W. Wilson survey. Nearly 100 graves, many of them from an 1897-98 diphtheria epidemic, date to the 19th century. In 1914, a cemetery association was chartered to manage and maintain the public burial ground. Among those buried here are founders of Trinity, professional and business leaders, and local citizens who served in the United States armed forces. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Cedar Grove Cemetery received its first documented burial — that of Phebe A. Martin — in 1875, three years after the town of Trinity was surveyed. Nearly 100 of its graves date to the nineteenth century, many from a devastating diphtheria epidemic in 1897-98. A cemetery association chartered in 1914 has cared for the grounds, which hold the town's founders, business leaders, and veterans of the U.S. armed forces.
Why it matters
The cemetery is a quiet chronicle of a young East Texas railroad town, including the epidemics that swept nineteenth-century communities before modern medicine.
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Related people
- · Phebe A. Martin
- · George W. Wilson
Related events
- · 1897-98 diphtheria epidemic
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