Glenwood Cemetery

Glenwood Cemetery is run by the Glenwood Cemetery Association of Crockett, a chartered nonprofit. County pages say the south sector opened soon after 1837 and the north sector in 1870, after the city and county reorganized following the Civil War. Two granite Centennial markers, for Judge Elijah Gossett and Major Isaac Watts Burton, went up in 1936. A 1987 count found 20 Texas Historical grave markers, 11 in the north sector and 9 in the south. They include Armistead Albert Aldrich, William Elbert Mayes, Augustus LeGory, David Alexander Nunn and Samuel Fisher Tenney.

What the plaque says

Glenwood Cemetery Crockett's Oldest Burial Ground - Glenwood Cemetery. In original townsite of Crockett. Opened soon after Houston County was created and the county seat founded in 1837. Burials include early Texas heroes and statesmen; a friend visited by David Crockett on way to the Alamo; a grandnephew of U.S. of U.S. President Monroe; and city's first elected major. (1972)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 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.

More markers nearby

• George G. Alford — steps away
• Samuel Fisher Tenney — steps away
• Armistead Albert Aldrich — steps away
• Isaac Adair Daniel — steps away