Col. Steward Alexander Miller

Crockett, TX

This northern section belongs to Glenwood Cemetery, opened in the original townsite of Crockett soon after Houston County and its county seat were established in 1837. Among its burials are early Texas heroes and statesmen, a man said to have been visited by David Crockett en route to the Alamo, a grandnephew of President Monroe, and the town's first elected mayor. The grounds hold the founding generation of this East Texas community.

Crockett, TX

Glenwood Cemetery opened soon after Houston County was carved out and Crockett was named county seat in 1837, during the days of the Republic of Texas. As the town's oldest burial ground, it holds early Texas heroes and statesmen, a man who is said to have been visited by David Crockett on his way to the Alamo, a grandnephew of President Monroe, and the town's first elected mayor. Its weathered stones map the founding generation of this East Texas community.

Crockett, TX

A New York native and War of 1812 officer, George G. Alford came to Texas in 1836 and served as quartermaster general under Sam Houston during the Texas Revolution. Captured by Mexican forces on a later supply mission for the young Republic, he won his release through the intervention of President Andrew Jackson, then settled into life as a plantation owner and county judge.

Crockett, TX

Isaac Watts Burton was a soldier of the Texas Revolution who fought at San Jacinto in 1836 and then led a cavalry company nicknamed the "Horse Marines" for its daring seizure of Mexican supply vessels along the Gulf coast. He went on to serve in the Congress of the young Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1839, one of the founding generation who tried to build a functioning nation out of a hard-won independence. The State of Texas raised this marker in 1936, the centennial of the revolution he helped win.