Hughey Chapel Cemetery
Stoneham, Grimes County, Texas
Marker Inscription
The family of Jefferson Edmond Hughey lived in this area by 1859, settling on a 260-acre homestead. Family members established a cemetery at this site, where the earliest marked burial, that of Mary Ann Garmany Boozer, Hughey's mother-in-law, dates to 1876. In the vicinity of the burial ground, the Hugheys built a chapel that also served area families as a schoolhouse. The property remained in the Hughey family until 1989. Today, the burial ground, which includes graves of Confederate veterans, remains a link to the area's early settlers. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2004
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
The family of Jefferson Edmond Hughey settled a 260-acre homestead in this part of Grimes County by 1859. They laid out a family cemetery whose earliest marked grave, that of Hughey's mother-in-law Mary Ann Garmany Boozer, dates to 1876, and built a nearby chapel that doubled as the community schoolhouse. The land stayed in Hughey hands until 1989, and the burial ground—home to Confederate veterans' graves—still marks the region's earliest settlers.
Why it matters
Family homestead cemeteries like this one are among the most durable records of how scattered Texas farming families settled, worshipped, and were remembered on the antebellum and Reconstruction-era frontier.
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Related people
- · Jefferson Edmond Hughey
- · Mary Ann Garmany Boozer
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