Alexander Cemetery

The plaque ties this burial ground to a Singleton land grant. The Singleton name here belongs to an Old Three Hundred family. George W. Singleton, born in North Carolina in 1788, appears in the March 1826 census with his wife, five sons and two daughters, and received title to a sitio in what is now Wharton County in 1827. In December 1830, Green DeWitt wrote that Indians had killed him at a mill on the Guadalupe. A George W. Singleton Jr., likely his son, applied for land in January 1832.

What the plaque says

Alexander Cemetery There was a schoolhouse near this site in 1854 when, according to tradition, the first interment was made here. That early grave, for a child by the name of Whitley, had no marker and has been lost. This land was part of a one-league headright grant made on Oct. 15, 1832, by Mexico to George W. Singleton, who had come to Texas with the "Old 300" settlers of Stephen F. Austin. Two of Singleton's heirs, living in Washington County, on Oct. 2, 1856, deeded ten acres from the grant for the use and benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The Alexander Church building was then erected near the school, and burials were continued in the area. The earliest identifiable grave is that of one of the original trustees of the property, James Walker (1817-74). William Lawrence, another of the first trustees, was also buried here, in 1879. The Alexander Cemetery Association was formed in 1941, with A.J. McCallum as President and L.T. Wilson, Secretary-Treasurer. Joe B. Walker, Wilson's successor, has served the association for 27 years. The association installed the chain link fence and water supply system. There are about 300 marked graves, and the cemetery is still open to burials. (1974)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum — 13 mi
  The library of the forty-first president on the Texas A&M campus, opened in 1997, where George and Barbara Bush and their daughter Robin are buried in a family plot on the grounds.
• Calvert — 22 mi
  A railroad cotton town of 1868 on State Highway 6 that claimed the largest cotton gin in the world and elected Black men to county and state office during Reconstruction.
• Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 31 mi
  A cedar-log dogtrot cabin of 1834 on the road through Anderson that grew into a seventeen-room inn and post office for travelers of the Republic, kept by one family until 1976.

More markers nearby

• Alexander Methodist Chapel — steps away
• El Camino Real — 4.4 mi
• Staggers Point — 4.4 mi
• Wixon Cemetery — 4.6 mi