Brewer Family Cemetery

 

Background: Small privately owned located just inside the Freestone county line. Green Berry Brewer filled for land on October 10, 1835 from the State of Coahuila and Texas, Mexico. Brewer got the land after paying the Mexican government $62.50 on October 26, 1835. Later this was to become the Brewer Prairie community (the precursor to Teague).
Cemetery Description: Covers about 1/3 acre with cyclone fence enclosure.
Location: 6 miles east of Donie.

Directions: From Donie, take a left on FM-164, travel 1.8 miles towards Buffalo, take another left and travel .3 miles on a gravel road and you will see a small wooden sign. Take a left and go .2 miles on a narrow road.
Number of Gaves: 8 fieldstone markers, number of iron-ore rocks marking burial sites, and three sites marked with seashells.
Oldest Marked Grave: Aug 18, 1872 Susan Hall
Three seashell grave covers - no markers

Some information came from Find-a-grave. You can see it at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2269689

Brewer, Barton E.
    son of W. F. & L. E.
Sep 4, 1894 Nov 24, 1900
Brewer, Effie Ann (Byran)
     wife of Luther Newton Brewer
Oct 1, 1881 Feb 16, 1968
Brewer, Harriet L. (Terry)
     wife of James William Brewer
Oct 1, 1837 Dec 6, 1875
Brewer, James William
     hus of Harriet L. (Terry) Brewer
Sep 12, 1829 Dec 13, 1892
Brewer, Luther Newton
     hus of Effie Ann (Bryan) Brewer
July 22, 1878 Nov 13, 1939
Brewer, Mabel Feb 23, 1898 Jan 16, 1901
Brewer, Otis Virgil Sr.
    hus of Mary Bobbie (Holland) Brewer
    son of Luther Newton & Effie Ann (Bryan) Brewer
Sep 13, 1907 Mar 21, 1983
Brewer, R. H. July 17, 1910 Apr 12, 1952
Brewer, Ruth Jan 1, 1913 Aug 23, 1914
Brown, Fannie W. Oct 1, 1826 Nov 10, 1879
Hall, A. L.
    wife of B. F. Hall
Nov 1, 1855 Jan 14, 1877
Hall, J. T.
    son of B. F. & A. L. Hall
Sep 15, 1874 Jan 9, 1876
Hall, Johnnie
    son of B. F. & A. L. Hall
Apr 10, 1876 June 9, 1877
Hall, Susan
    dau of B. F. & A. L. Hall
Feb 28, 1872 Aug 18, 1872
Unknown
     (marked by a large rock)
Unknown Unknown