​Old Salem Cemetery

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Marker No: 11378

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.169931, -96.090370

Location: ​FM 1736, one mile west of SH 5, 5 miles north of Hempstead

Marker Text: ​This burial ground originally served the family of T.B. White. His wife Elizabeth (d. 1857) and her father Henry Kirby (d. 1854) are interred here. White sold ten adjoining acres to the Salem Association in 1853 as a site for construction of a masonic lodge hall and academy. The site became a public cemetery after that date. The earliest marked grave is that of Jane McCullen (1788-1851). Also buried here is Francis J. Cooke, a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto. A cemetery association was established in 1949 to provide maintenance for the burial ground. (1980)