Wells Cemetery

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Marker Text: ​This frontier community cemetery was established in the early 1850s.  The earliest recorded burial was that of a child, Martha Jackson, in 1853.  Georgia native Samuel Lumpkin Wells and his wife, Eliza Bennett (McGinty), an Alabama native, left their Mississippi home for Texas about 1860.  By 1867 the Wellses owned the land containing this graveyard.  The previous year their 23-year-old daughter, Mae Wells, had been buried at this site. 
    Among the 40 or so marked gravesites in this cemetery are those of at least three veterans of the civil war and that of Seawill (Pipkin) Wells, for whom the former local community of Seawillow was named.  At its height, the community boasted a post office, school, church, and store.  Many pioneers of this community, including Samuel and Eliza Wells and their descendants are buried here.  They represent the Foreman, Long, Kirksey, Kelly, Franks, Patterson, Jones, Chapman, Rogers, Wallis, Misenhimer, Dillard, Hendricks, Perry, Tally, Watts, and Henderson families.  The last burial was that of Nicholas Perkins Ridout in 1934.  Descendants of many of the early settlers interred here formed the Wells Cemetery Association in 1988 for the purpose of maintain the grounds.  (1993)

Marker No: 15225

Aluminum 27 x 42 Subject Marker 

Geographic: 29.82683, -97.57675

Location: From FM 713 take CR 198 (same as Wells Cemetery Road). Take a right on CR 200, Seawillow