Red Hill Cemetery (1994)

Settlement in this area began in the 1840s. By 1849 the Red Hill Methodist Church had been established about three miles northwest of here. Sometime prior to 1877 the Red Hill Methodist congregation began to hold camp meetings at this site. In 1877 Smith County resident H. E. Calehan donated more than seven acres here to the Red Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Though a church building was never built at the site, Methodist congregations from the Red Hill and Blackjack communities attended summer revivals here. The religious gatherings, which included brush arbor meetings, became traditional annual events. According to local tradition burials took place here prior to the first recorded interment, that of Joel and Mary Morton's daughter Lucinda in 1877. The site became a community graveyard serving the area's rural community and the towns of Brownsboro, Blackjack, and Murchison. Red Hill Cemetery contains more than 450 marked grave sites. Among the people buried here are many of the pioneer settlers of the area and their descendants and veterans of wars ranging from the Civil War to the Vietnam conflict. The cemetery is maintained by the Red Hill Cemetery Association. Sesquicentennial of Texas Statehood 1845 - 1995

Red Hill Cemetery is a historical marker in Brownsboro, Henderson County, dedicated in 1994. It is one of 65 historical markers documented in Henderson County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 155 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 32.2847, -95.6964 near Brownsboro. The nearest cataloged historic site is Horton, Arthur C., M.D. (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Red Hill Cemetery, Mount Zion Baptist Church, and Ford Family Cemetery.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5213010374. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.