Texas Historical Marker #07213
Hopewell Cemetery. Burials at this site on the 1846 Wilson Reed survey date from the 1860s. Hopewell Baptist Church, founded in 1866, erected a church building on adjoining property two years later. The earliest marked grave is that of an infant, John W. Pritchard, who died in 1870. Another gravestone bearing the date 1870 is that of William C. Fouty (1866-1870), is also interred here. In 1875 Joshua Parmer Cox (1824-1881) purchased from J. H. Manning property which included the cemetery site. Cox, whose grave is located here, donated the land beside the church for use as a public burial ground. When the railroad extended south from Corsicana, the town of Navarro (1 mi. N) was laid out and Hopewell Baptist Church moved there in 1907. Navarro became a thriving community, dependent on cattle and farming until the oil boom of the 1920s. The Hopewell Cemetery Association was organized in 1919. Before that time, families traditionally brought picnic lunches and gathered to tend the graveyard on annual workdays. In 1940 the cemetery was enlarged when two adjacent acres were purchased from Hugh and Irene Wilson. The 500 marked graves include those eof veterans of several wars. #7213
?, Eureka, TX, United States
Texas Historical Marker #07191
Eureka Methodist Church. Prior to the Civil War, circuit riding ministers began serving Methodist settlers in this area. By the 1880s a formal congregation was organized, and in 1881 land was acquired from Mark H. Bird on which to build a church and establish a graveyard (now known as Bird Cemetery). A sanctuary built that year was destroyed by winds several years later. The church moved to this site in 1902 and has continued to serve the community. Recent building programs have resulted in the construction of an educational building, a parsonage, and a new sanctuary. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986 #7191
US 287 at CR SE 3100, Eureka, TX, United States
Texas Historical Marker #07234
Home of Whitney Montgomery, Poet. (1877-1966) Born in Navarro County in white-columned house across pasture south of this site. Began to write poetry when he was 15 years old. Author of more than 500 published poems which appeared in many major magazines; won numerous poetry prizes. Moved to Dallas, 1927. Was editor and publisher of "Kaleidograph" Magazine and Press. Helped to organize and was vice president of the Poetry Society of Texas. His home was honored in this poem. I OWN A HOME I can not boast of a broad estate, But I own a home with a rose at the gate. I hold the title, and I keep the keys, And in and out I can go as I please. My home is not grand, but I live content, For no man sends me a bill for rent. And no man comes with a brush and a pail To paint a sign on my door, "For Sale." I can not boast of a broad estate, But I own a home with a rose at the gate. Incise in base: Erected by the family of Whitney Montgomery, 1967 #7234
US 287, Eureka, TX, United States
Texas Historical Marker #07190
Eureka Cemetery. Settlement in this area began in the 1840s. J. F. and J. M. Floyd, members of the local Richland Associate Reform Presbyterian Church organized in 1876, donated land here in 1878 for church and graveyard purposes. The first recorded burial was that of infant Nellie E. Sloan in 1885. The cemetery has been enlarged over the years and in 1995 contained about 13 acres. Buried here are local religious, education, and business leaders, elected officials, and veterans of conflicts ranging from the Civil War to World War II. The cemetery is maintained by the Eureka Cemetery Association. Sesquicentennial of Texas Statehood 1845 - 1995 #7190
?, Eureka, TX, United States