Station Creek Cemetery
Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Located next to the Station Creek Methodist Episcopal Church, south, this cemetery was established in 1856 with Robert F. Morris (1828-1856) as the first burial. His mother, Mary F. Morris (1800-1876), is buried next to him. Of the forty identified headstones, most date before 1890. Other noted burials include Dr. E.R. Ashby (1790-1877), numerous confederate soldiers and brothers W.R. And J.M. Green, both hanged by a vigilante mob as accused horse thieves. The last known burial, in 1908, was that of S.A.C.J. Jones (1852-1908). The church congregation relocated to McGregor in the 1880s, leaving the cemetery to the community. The cemetery endures as a reminder of settlers in early Coryell County history.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Established in 1856 beside a Methodist Episcopal church, Station Creek Cemetery opened with the burial of 28-year-old Robert Morris, whose mother would join him twenty years later. Most of its forty headstones predate 1890, and among the graves are numerous Confederate soldiers and two brothers, W.R. and J.M. Green, hanged by a vigilante mob as accused horse thieves. When the congregation moved to McGregor in the 1880s, the cemetery was left to the wider community.
Why it matters
The graves here—Confederate veterans and men lynched by frontier vigilantes alike—preserve the hard, often lawless texture of early settlement in central Texas.
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Related people
- · Robert F. Morris
- · W.R. Green
- · J.M. Green
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