Mount Calvary Cemetery

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Marker No: 3488

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 28.302330,-97.281631

Marker Text: Initiated by the burial of 16 soldiers massacred during the Texas revolution of 1836.
    The bones of Capt. Amon King and his men--scattered on the Prairie--were buried by Refugio citizens. Later forgotten, the site was rediscovered in 1934.
     Grave of J. Hampton Kuykendall (1820?-1882), revolutionary soldier, journalist, congressman, and scholar, lies near north fence.
​    Also interred here are Irish settlers of the 1830s Powerheweson colony. Among them is Empresario James Power, who also signed Texas declaration of Independence. (1970) 

Location: west end of Santiago Street, Refugio