Details for Mount Calvary Cemetery
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5391003488
Data
| Marker Number | 3488 |
| Atlas Number | 5391003488 |
| Marker Title | Mount Calvary Cemetery |
| Index Entry | Mount Calvary Cemetery |
| Address | W end of Santiago St. |
| City | Refugio |
| County | Refugio |
| UTM Zone | 15 |
| UTM Easting | 668607 |
| UTM Northing | 3131856 |
| Subject Codes | cemetery; Baptist denomination; churches; African American topics |
| Marker Year | 1990 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Mount Calvery Cemetery, west end of Santiago St., Refugio |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| 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. |