Blewett Cemetery

This cemetery is older than Richardson. Rev. George Blewett buried his daughter Ann here in 1855, eighteen years before the Houston and Texas Central Railroad bought land from William Wheeler and Bernard Reilly and platted a town in 1873. The nearer settlement was Breckinridge, which had a post office, store and inn until the railroad bypassed it. The Dallas Genealogical Society inventoried the graves in 1979 and 1982 and published the list in 1982. Blewett's wife, Nancy, who died in 1903, and nine of their children rest in the one-acre plot.

What the plaque says

Blewett Cemetery Established for family and community burials by the Rev. George L. Blewett, this cemetery was first used in 1855 after the death of his daughter Ann. A Cumberland Presbyterian minister, Blewett had come to Texas in 1853 with his family and other pioneers from Kentucky. Nine of the Blewett children are buried here, as are George (d. 1884) and his wife, Nancy (d. 1903). The Blewett Cemetery was for many years associated with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and until the mid-1920s was one of the primary burial grounds for the Richardson community. 1985

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fair Park — 13 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 13 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 13 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 13 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church of Richardson — 0.5 mi
• Richardson — 0.7 mi
• First Presbyterian Church of Richardson — 0.8 mi
• First United Methodist Church Richardson — 0.9 mi