Details for Apolonia Cemetery
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5185008563
Data
| Marker Number | 8563 |
| Atlas Number | 5185008563 |
| Marker Title | Apolonia Cemetery |
| Index Entry | Apolonia Cemetery |
| Address | CR 214 |
| City | Anderson |
| County | Grimes |
| UTM Zone | 15 |
| UTM Easting | 222063 |
| UTM Northing | 3376321 |
| Subject Codes | cemetery; community; churches; Baptist denomination; military topics |
| Marker Year | 1974 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | From Anderson take FM 2819 E approximately 6 miles to CR 214; then E on CR 214 approximately 0.7 miles to cemetery on S side of the road. |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| 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) |