Details for Sterling Cemetery
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5395010950
Data
| Marker Number | 10950 |
| Atlas Number | 5395010950 |
| Marker Title | Sterling Cemetery |
| Index Entry | Sterling Cemetery |
| Address | |
| City | Calvert |
| County | Robertson |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 718810 |
| UTM Northing | 3429991 |
| Subject Codes | cemetery |
| Marker Year | 1973 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | 2 mi. west of Calvert via FM 979 to CR 116 |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | Burial place of some 400 Texas pioneers and descendants. On land granted (1835) to A. J. Webb; bought in 1850 by Judge Robert Calvert, a civic leader in Sterling, a town named for Empresario Sterling C. Robertson. Calvert dedicated 11.1-acre cemetery and built adjacent Cumberland Presbyterian Church of his own plantation timber. In 1867, Judge Calvert died and was buried near cemetery gate. The church building was moved by oxen to new town of Calvert (2 mi. E). In 1868, his wife, Mary Keesee Calvert, and their three daughters deeded cemetery site to the Cumberland Presbyterians. |