Meador Cemetery
Milam, Sabine County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Virginia-born Dr. Richard A. Meador (1808-1853) and his wife Mary Ann (Tucker) (1818-1864) came to Sabine County in 1844 and built a home near this site. Their young child Sarah died in 1850 and the family buried here in their garden since there was no public cemetery at that time. The garden was firmly established as the Meador Family Cemetery with the burial of other family members, many of whom were important in the development of Sabine County. There are approximately forty graves here which are maintained by the Meador Family Cemetery Association. (1983)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Virginia-born Dr. Richard A. Meador and his wife Mary Ann came to Sabine County in 1844, when Texas was still an independent republic, and built a home near this site. When their young daughter Sarah died in 1850, they buried her in the family garden for want of a public cemetery, and the plot grew into the Meador Family Cemetery as later generations were laid to rest there. Roughly forty graves remain, tended by a family association.
Why it matters
Garden burials turned family cemeteries are intimate monuments to the earliest Anglo settlers of East Texas, marking where households put down roots on the deep-piney-woods frontier.
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- · Richard A. Meador
- · Mary Ann Meador
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