Glenfawn Cemetery

Julien Sidney Devereux, born in Georgia in 1805, set up Terrebonne Plantation in Montgomery County in 1841 and moved to Rusk County five years later to establish Monte Verdi, his plantation home. At one time he owned 10,000 acres and eighty enslaved people, the Handbook of Texas says. He died on May 1, 1856. The Handbook says Glenfawn's name may have come from Devereux, while another account credits a fawn killed at the site by Ellis Glenn or by a later settler, Glen Garland. By 1884 the settlement had 250 people, a steam sawmill and a district school.

What the plaque says

Glenfawn Cemetery Cemetery was begun after the death of Julien Sidney Devereux (1805-56), with the remains of his father, John W. Devereux (1769-1847), and an infant son reinterred soon after. Called Devereux and Sand Field, the plot served nearby Forest Hill community ( 1 mile N), site of academy founded by Devereux in 1850. Name was changed to Glenfawn in 1872 when post office opened with Charles Nunnally, postmaster. The settlement had several stores, two blacksmiths, school, church and Masonic Lodge building. The old Methodist-Baptist Church was located east of cemetery. (1973)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New London Museum and Cenotaph — 24 mi
  A volunteer-run museum beside the pink granite cenotaph for the March 1937 school gas explosion, holding a model of the school, a blackboard from that day and an odorizer device.
• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 27 mi
  Three earthen mounds of an ancestral Caddo village and ceremonial center on the old El Camino Real, settled about A.D. 800 and still sacred to Caddo people, with a grass house and visitor center.

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• Monte Verdi Family Slaves — 0.7 mi
• Smyrna Baptist Church — 6.1 mi
• Brewer Cemetery — 12 mi
• Emmaus — 14 mi