New Cemetery of Montgomery

The first graves here belonged to men the town would not bury in its churchyard. On December 28, 1868, ten to twenty townsmen shot four men dead in Montgomery: County Attorney William McGrew, his teenage half-brothers John and Robert Oliver, and a man known as Charles "Texas" Brown. Judge Nathaniel Hart Davis wrote in his journal that the killing did the town good. He also recorded that McGrew had been in a disguised crowd that took "the Negro at court"; the man is not named. McGrew's is the only grave with a marker.

What the plaque says

New Cemetery of Montgomery Burial place of many honored Texans, including Dr. Charles B. Stewart, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and first secretary of state; also wife of Gen. Memucan Hunt, Texas soldier and statesman. Other noted individuals here include soldiers of the Texas army and veterans of the Civil War and other wars engaged in by the United States. This cemetery was founded December 1, 1868, to relieve "Old" Methodist plot. First persons buried on land (donated by P. J. and R. S. Willis, merchants) were 3 men killed by vigilantes. A fourth was buried nearby. (1969)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 18 mi
  A cedar-log dogtrot cabin of 1834 on the road through Anderson that grew into a seventeen-room inn and post office for travelers of the Republic, kept by one family until 1976.
• Navasota — 23 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.
• Star of the Republic Museum — 27 mi
  A star-shaped museum of the Republic of Texas years, 1836 to 1846, built at Washington-on-the-Brazos after a Brenham campaign and opened on March 1, 1970.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 27 mi
  The townsite on the Brazos where delegates met in a cold, unfinished hall in March 1836 to declare Texas independent, with Independence Hall rebuilt and Anson Jones's Barrington farm worked as in 1850.

More markers nearby

• The Old Methodist Churchyard — 0.4 mi
• John M. Wade — 0.4 mi
• Lake Creek Settlement — 0.5 mi
• Charles Bellinger Stewart — 0.5 mi