Wixon
Cemetery
Brazos County,
Texas
Cemeteries of Texas Coordiantor: Dolores I. Bishop
Information
provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site
Location From
the intersection of SH 6 and U.S. Hwy. 190 go NE on U.S. Hwy. 190 approx. 5
miles to FM 2776; then NW on FM 2776 approximately .6 miles to cemetery gate.
Marker:
The rural
farming community of Wixon was settled in the late 1860s by former residents of
several war-torn southern states. The Wixon School and Wixon Cumberland
Presbyterian Church were established in the 1870s on land adjacent to this
cemetery. The earliest recorded burial here was that of Nancy Summers in 1871.
Both the church and school closed in the 1930s and in 1968 the school property
was deeded to the cemetery association. Buried here are many of the area's early
settlers and their descendants and at least 17 Confederate Civil War veterans.