Confederate Cemetery
Alvin, Brazoria County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Established in the 1890's by John A. Wharton Camp, U. C. V.; burial ground for Confederate veterans and families. After increase of acreage, use of cemetery was extended to public. Veterans of 4 wars; 1900 hurricane victims as well as prominent civic leaders are buried here. (1968)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Founded in the 1890s by a local camp of the United Confederate Veterans, this Alvin cemetery began as a burial ground for Confederate veterans and their families before its grounds were enlarged and opened to the wider public. Among those laid to rest here are veterans of four wars, victims of the deadly 1900 hurricane, and prominent civic leaders. The graveyard gathers the memory of a Brazoria County community across generations of service and loss.
Why it matters
Confederate veterans' cemeteries were focal points of Southern memory and identity in the decades after the Civil War, binding a community's dead to a shared and contested past.
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Related people
- · John A. Wharton
Related events
- · Galveston hurricane of 1900
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