Brewer Cemetery

The 1816 on this marker is family tradition. A finding aid for the Henry Brewer Family Papers at Stephen F. Austin State University says Brewer is said to have first come to Texas that year, but no documentation places him here before 1833, when he bought land from Joseph Durst. The same aid says his son Henry Mitchell Brewer fought at the Battle of Nacogdoches in 1832 and at San Jacinto in 1836. Henry Brewer died in Nacogdoches County on January 23, 1865, and was buried in the cemetery.

What the plaque says

Brewer Cemetery Dedicated 1816. Henry, born Oct. 24, 1776, died Jan. 23, 1865. Susannah, wife of Henry Brewer, born April 7, 1777, died 1853. Henry Mitchell born in Georgia, June 3, 1807, died 1849. John, born 1819, died 1910. Henry and John Brewer were in the Battle of Nacogdoches. Henry Mitchell Brewer fought at San Jacinto.

Where it stands

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