Cedar Grove Cemetery

Trinity's first school stood in a corner of this cemetery. A late-1930s manuscript by G. H. Ramey Jr., held at the Trinity County Museum, calls it a one-room, one-teacher log hut used for school, shows, church and whatever else the occasion required, with a Mr. Champion as first principal, addressed as Professor. Texas Escapes, quoting the Old Red Schoolhouse marker, dates the log schoolhouse to 1872, near Cedar Grove Cemetery. Ramey names Barnes, Clegg, Gibson, Martin, Arnold, Herndon, Hobbs, Gates and Frisby among the town's first families.

What the plaque says

Cedar Grove Cemetery The first documented burial in the cemetery, that of Phebe A. Martin, took place in 1875, three years after the town of Trinity was laid out on the George W. Wilson survey. Nearly 100 graves, many of them from an 1897-98 diphtheria epidemic, date to the 19th century. In 1914, a cemetery association was chartered to manage and maintain the public burial ground. Among those buried here are founders of Trinity, professional and business leaders, and local citizens who served in the United States armed forces. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Jacob Pope And Elizabeth Ann Barnes — steps away
• Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine Railroad — 0.3 mi
• Trinity Volunteer Fire Department — 0.4 mi
• Charles Nesbitt "Charlie" Wilson — 0.4 mi