Fulshear Cemetery

Churchill Fulshear, Jr., who gave this ground, was born in Tennessee on July 10, 1808, and grew up on the family's Brazos plantation. He and his brothers Graves and Benjamin were scouting when Santa Anna's army crossed the river near the plantation on April 14, 1836. Five days later he was sent with James Wells and Washington H. Secrest to watch Martín Perfecto de Cos, and the three were separated when they met the Mexicans at Stafford's Point. He married Minerva Cartwright, ran the Churchill Downs race course from 1850 to 1870 and died in 1892.

What the plaque says

Fulshear Cemetery More than six acres here of the Mexican land grant acquired in 1824 by "Old 300" colonist Churchill Fulshear, Jr., were donated to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, by Churchill Fulshear, Jr., in 1851. Originally Union Chappel Cemetery, it was renamed Fulshear for the town that developed here in the 1890s. The first recorded burial is that of Mahalia Sparks in 1850. A church building and school were erected here in the 1850s. The church relocated to fulshear in 1894. Original church trustees were Randolph Foster, the Rev. John Patton, J. W. Miller, G. D. Parker, William Wade, and e. H. Kemp. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brazos Bend State Park — 29 mi
  Oak and pecan bottomland, lakes and alligators on the Brazos River 45 miles from downtown Houston, with the museum's George Observatory in the woods.

More markers nearby

• Town of Fulshear — 0.9 mi
• Pittsville — 1.9 mi
• Randon & Pennington Grant of 1824 — 4.4 mi
• John Foster Land Grant — 5.0 mi