Humble Cemetery

The plaque tells who lies here; the harder story has been who would keep it. For decades the cemetery belonged on paper to the Humble Cemetery Company, long defunct, and burials fell off from the late 1920s as perpetual-care cemeteries opened. Volunteers of the James Tull Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, researched it for the 1992 marker and in 2017 began cleaning and resetting stones with the city. Humble took full legal ownership in February 2020, and in March 2022 the council approved a contract of about $10,000 to repair 34 monuments, thirteen of them for veterans.

What the plaque says

Humble Cemetery This cemetery is believed to be the town of Humble's oldest. The earliest documented burial is that of Joseph Dunman (1867-1879). Also believed to be buried here in an unmarked grave is Jane Elizabeth Humble, wife of the community's founder, Pleasant Humble. The first legal record of the cemetery appears in a deed transferring the cemetery property from Jonas Altmont to trustees in 1914. Civil War veteran Houston Young and several World War I veterans are also interred here. This cemetery serves as a reflection of Humble's pioneer heritage. (1992)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 17 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• Emancipation Park — 19 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 19 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.
• Rothko Chapel — 20 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.

More markers nearby

• First United Methodist Church of Humble — 0.2 mi
• Lambrecht's Artesian Well — 0.4 mi
• Humble Lodge No. 979, A.F. & A.M. — 0.5 mi
• City of Humble — 0.7 mi