Bryan City Cemetery

The plaque starts the city's cemetery in 1868. An older burial ground came first. It was on land originally owned by William Joel Bryan, was in use by 1861, and is sometimes called the Yellow Fever Cemetery. A 2024 marker there says city ordinances treated it as a pauper ground, and only one grave, that of James P. King, who died in 1868, carries a stone. In 1870, immigrants who formed the Hebrew Benevolent Society bought a cemetery plot from the city.

What the plaque says

Bryan City Cemetery Established on June 13, 1868, three years after the townsite of Bryan was dedicated. Land for the graveyard--20 acres then on the northern edge of Bryan--was sold to the city for $100 by landowner J.C. Hubert. The first addition of land was made June 15, 1915; the area is now 48 acres. Many prominent early citizens are buried here. The City Cemetery Advisory Board and the Bryan Cemetery Association (organized November 30, 1920) serve in an advisory capacity in the operation of the cemetery. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum — 6.0 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.
• Navasota — 26 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.
• Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 27 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.
• Calvert — 27 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.

More markers nearby

• Confederate Veterans in Bryan City Cemetery — steps away
• Charlie Eric Jenkins — 0.2 mi
• Isom Palmer — 0.2 mi
• Black Education in Bryan — 0.3 mi