Sycamore Cemetery
Newton County, Newton County, Texas
Marker Inscription
An 1845 land grant brought pioneers to this area and it is believed that at least some of the graves here marked with only a rock or a post are from those early years of settlement. The oldest dated gravestone is that of a 13-year-old boy, J.I. Jones (1872-1885). Honored in this burial grond are veterms of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam, alongside the citizens that setled this area and have contributed to its history and development. The Sycamore Cemetery continies to serve the community and is maintaned and care for by an association through the donatinos of descendants. Historic Texas Cemetery-2000
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
An 1845 land grant first drew pioneers to this corner of Newton County, and some of the graves marked only by a rough rock or post likely date to those earliest years of settlement. The oldest legible stone belongs to a thirteen-year-old boy who died in 1885. Among the settlers who shaped the community rest veterans of the Civil War and every major American conflict from World War I through Vietnam, still tended today by an association of descendants.
Why it matters
A living community cemetery like this ties the pioneers who first broke the land to the generations of their descendants who served the nation in war after war.
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