Historical Marker
Sabine Town Cemetery
Sabine Town, Sabine County · Texas
Erected 1997
Sabine Town lay where Gaucho Creek meets the Sabine River, eight miles east of Hemphill, and the Handbook of Texas says it became a shipping point and distribution center fed by cotton from nearby plantations. Herman Frazier surveyed the townsite in 1839. Besides the customhouse the town had a wholesale house, a hotel, a school, a clock factory, a relay station, a tannery and a trading post for Cherokee. Most river traffic used its docks, and the stern-wheeler Neches Belle, which may have been the last steamboat to reach them, made its final trip in 1897.
What the plaque says
Sabine Town Cemetery S. H. Morris sold 200 acres of his land grant in the 1830s for the establishment of the town of Sabine. Businesses included a post office, customs house, wagon factory, brick kiln and a tanning yard. The Sabine Town Cemetery contains 18 known graves; Mary Jane Scott's is the earliest recorded burial in 1842. The graveyard was in use until 1907; Harry C. Maunds is the last recorded burial. In 1970 the James Frederick Gomer Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas in Hemphill took over maintenance of the site. (1997)
Where it stands
31.40419, -93.71262 · Directions
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