Hopewell Cemetery
Bushy Creek, Anderson Co. Cemeteries of TX
Submitted by Joyce E McWilliams
Location FM 837, 2.5 mi. NW of Brushy
Creek
Information provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site
Marker:
Serving the rural area of north Anderson County and the
community of Brushy Creek, this cemetery traces its history to the 1860s. The
earliest documented burial in the graveyard is that of Zylpha Wylie, who died in
1862. There are at least 74 unmarked graves. A number of people were buried here
in the 1870s, including many infants and children. Several generations of some
pioneer Anderson County families are represented by the gravestones found in the
Hopewell Cemetery. Also interred here are five Confederate veterans of the Civil
War. The land on which the cemetery is located was officially designated as a
burial ground in 1881, when John H. and Mary Young deeded the property to
trustees of the Church of Christ at Hopewell. Totaling about six acres, the land
was purchased for $15.00 by church trustees William Elkins, Chesley Murphey, and
John L. Scarborough. Descendants of the area's pioneer settlers formed a
cemetery association in 1953 to provide maintenance for the historic graveyard.
A memorial service is held once a year. (1990)
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