Evergreen Cemetery
Houston County, Houston County, Texas
Marker Inscription
A rural community of farming families once existed in this area. Known as Evergreen, it was named for the numerous evergreen trees in the vicinity. A small school and church building provided a gathering place for the community. Land given for the school in 1879 by early settlers R.T. and Susan Lively also became the site of a community graveyard. The earliest known burial to occur here was that of Philip Pipkin (1817-1886). Others interred in the cemetery include descendants of the Lively and other pioneer families.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
In the pinewoods of Houston County, a farming settlement named for its evergreen trees once gathered around a shared school and church. In 1879 settlers R.T. and Susan Lively gave land that served both as a schoolhouse site and a community graveyard, with the earliest known burial that of Philip Pipkin in 1886. The cemetery still holds generations of the Lively and other pioneer families.
Why it matters
Places like Evergreen show how education, worship, and remembrance clustered together at the heart of rural American communities that have since faded from the map.
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Related people
- · Philip Pipkin
- · R.T. Lively
- · Susan Lively
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