Grimes County Bethel Cemetery
4 mi. NW of Bedias, but must be accessed through Madison County, via FM 1372 and CR 410 (Bethel Cemetery Rd.), Bedias, TX, USA
Texas, USA
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EST. 1843
EST. 1843
1835
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Grimes County Bethel Cemetery.
The Texas Historical Commission Atlas records this marker as in situ at the listed location. It remains part of the state marker inventory; the placement description and coordinates in this row follow the current official Atlas record and should be field-verified before publication.
About Grimes County Bethel Cemetery
Settlers of the Bethel community founded this burial ground in 1843. Sarah Bradley Dodson, of an Old Three Hundred family, is buried here and had sewn a Lone Star flag flown at Washington-on-the-Brazos in 1836. Her husband later donated the land to Bethel Presbyterian Church, which opened an adjoining section for African American burials in 1904.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Grimes County Bethel Cemetery
During the Republic of Texas era, settlers in this area came together to form the Bethel community. In 1843, a visitor died of smallpox and was buried at this site, which became Bethel Cemetery. Among those buried here is Sarah Bradley Dodson, known as the “Betsy Ross of Texas.” Part of an “Old 300” family from Stephen F. Austin’s first Texas colony, Dodson created a Lone Star flag in 1835 to send with her husband, Archelaus, during the Texas Revolution. The flag was one of two that flew over Washington-on-the-Brazos at the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence on march 2, 1836. In 1852, four years after his wife died of pneumonia, Archelaus Dodson gave this burial ground to trustees of Bethel Presbyterian Church, who built a chapel next to the cemetery circa 1844. in 1904, trustees of the burial ground opened an adjacent section for local African Americans. That section of Bethel is sometimes known as Salem Cemetery. Today, a link to a community long gone, Old Bethel Cemetery is the final resting place for generations of Texas pioneers and area residents. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2005 Source: https://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/5507013475
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