Marshall Cemetery

Several of the people named here came by different roads. The Handbook of Texas says Horace Randal died of wounds from Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas, on April 30, 1864, was first buried at Tulip, Arkansas, near the battlefield and was later moved to Marshall's Old Marshall Cemetery. Edward Clark, who died on May 4, 1880, was buried in Marshall. John T. Mills died here in November 1871, and Walter P. Lane was buried here with full military honors after his death on January 28, 1892.

What the plaque says

Marshall Cemetery Incorporated Dec. 12, 1849. Resting place of many early Texas leaders and patriots: Edward Clark (1815-80), Governor of Texas, 1861; Colonel, C.S.A. Walter P. Lane (1817-92) veteran of Texas Revolution and Mexican war; Brigadier General, C.S.A. John T. Mills (1817-71), Associate Justice Supreme Court, Republic of Texas; District Judge in the state; a county is named for him. Horace Randal (1833-64), Brigadier General, C.S.A.; also honored by naming of county in his memory. Unknown soldiers who died in local hospitals, honored by an obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. (1966)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — 0.3 mi
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.
• Harrison County Historical Museum — 0.3 mi
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 0.6 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 14 mi
  Wetlands and woods on part of a former ammunition plant, now a refuge for wood ducks, prothonotary warblers and alligator snapping turtles, with four easy trails and a free visitor center on a Ramsar lake.

More markers nearby

• John T. Mills — steps away
• Governor Edward Clark — steps away
• Marshall, C.S.A. — steps away
• Walter Paye Lane — steps away