Snake Creek Cemetery and Church

John Porter Gill, one of the two San Jacinto veterans buried here, was born in Alabama in 1801 and came to Texas in 1831. In August 1835 he joined ninety-three other Brazoria residents in calling a convention to quiet the excitement of the time. At the siege of Bexar, as a lieutenant in John York's company, he led a detachment that reinforced the Texans holding Zambrano Row on December 8. He was a first lieutenant in Sidney Sherman's Second Regiment at San Jacinto, later a militia captain and a Brazoria County justice of the peace, and died in 1869.

What the plaque says

Snake Creek Cemetery and Church Tombstones in this cemetery reflect early settlers who lived in Snake Creek community: Hodges, Boon, Boone, Darst, Davis, Gill, Armstrong, Hartgraves, Hughes, Kennelly, Scott, Simpson, Smith, Snedecor, Sims, Tarver, West. Two veterans of the Battle of san Jacinto, Emory H. Darst and John P. Gill are buried here, as are several Confederate veterans. Land for the graveyard was granted in the 1850s by william Cole and by Peter L. West, who is buried here. A community church west of the cemetery served residents many years until destroyed during a 1932 hurricane. (1985)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brazos Bend State Park — 19 mi
  Oak and pecan bottomland, lakes and alligators on the Brazos River 45 miles from downtown Houston, with the museum's George Observatory in the woods.
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 22 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.

More markers nearby

• Needville Methodist Church — 5.4 mi
• Town of Needville — 5.8 mi
• Terry v. Adams — 7.7 mi
• Kendleton — 7.8 mi