Concord Cemetery
Crockett, Houston County, Texas
Marker Inscription
In July 1889, Armistead Albert Aldrich donated three acres of land to the Concord Presbyterian Church for a church lot and graveyard. J.C. Dudley and David T. Adair were ordained church elders, and Dudley's burial in 1895 was the cemetery's first. Gravestones memorialize dozens of local surnames, as well as fraternal organization members and military veterans. In 1963, the Presbyterian church conveyed the land to trustees of the Concord Cemetery Association, which maintains this wooded burial ground. Association bylaws state that lots are reserved for members or descendants of those already buried here and cannot be sold. Of the more than 100 burials, nine are unmarked graves. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2006
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
In 1889 Armistead Albert Aldrich gave three acres to the Concord Presbyterian Church for a sanctuary and graveyard in the piney woods of Houston County. The first burial came in 1895, and over the decades the wooded ground filled with the family names of the surrounding farm community, along with veterans and members of fraternal lodges. In 1963 the church handed the land to a cemetery association that still keeps lots reserved for descendants of those already resting here.
Why it matters
This close-knit family burial ground reflects the church-centered rural communities that knit together settlement-era East Texas, where a graveyard doubled as a record of local kinship.
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