Historical Marker
Brackenridge Cemetery
Edna, Jackson County · Texas
Erected 1972
The Brackenridges belonged to Texana, the river port this marker now stands for. By 1880 the town had regular steamboats, mail and stage routes and its own paper, the Clarion, and as late as 1882 some twenty ships a week docked there. Then the New York, Texas and Mexican Railway passed it by, Edna became county seat, and by 1884 Texana was nearly a ghost town. Its Presbyterians hauled their 1859 sanctuary eight miles overland to Edna, where it stands as a cultural center. Lake Texana now covers the old townsite.
What the plaque says
Brackenridge Cemetery Among family members buried there: John A. Brackenridge (1800-62), a Warrick County, Ind., neighbor from whom young Abraham Lincoln borrowed law brooks, 1855 founder of Texana Presbyterian Church; his son, George W. Brackenridge (1832-1902), emissary to Benito Juarez in Mexico from President Lincoln in 1860s, founder (1866) San Antonio National Bank, donor San Antonio's Brackenridge Park, member first board of regents, the University of Texas, serving 30 years, philanthropist; daughter Mary Eleanor Brackenridge (1837-1924), on first board of regents, CIA (Texas Woman's University). (1972)
Where it stands
28.98045, -96.64798 · Directions
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