Apolonia Cemetery
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Marker No: 8563
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Geographic: 30.488766,-95.894043
Location: from Anderson take FM 2819 east approximately 6 miles to CR 215; then on CR 215 approximately .6 miles to cemetery.
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Marker Text: Known as Pine Grove for the Baptist church that was focus for community in the area, this burial ground was in use in 1860s. Tombstone of Mrs. Harriet Hobdy Kelley is dated 1869, but there may be earlier, unmarked graves. Land donors were (1886) J. L. and Eveline Mansfield. War veterans here: the Confederates Richard Butler, Henderson Green, and W. T. Wasson; also Wasson's son, Brosig T. Wasson, Grimes County's first fatality of World War I. When the church disbanded in 1929, the cemetery was renamed for area's defunct post office. At least one family has 3 generations here. (1974)
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