Page Cemetery

Historical marker location:

757 Page Cemetery Rd., Huntington, Texas

( From Huntington intersection of Highway 69 and FM1669, go south for 2.9 miles. Turn right onto Fm Rd. 844 (Shawnee Prairie) for 9.l miles. Turn right onto Lambert Chapel Rd. Go 1.3 miles and turn right onto Southwell Rd. Go 1.3 miles and turn right onto Grimes Flournoy Rd. Go 1/10 mile; turn left onto Wayne Johnson Rd. Go 0.4 miles and turn right onto Page Cemetery Rd. It is 0.5 miles to cemetery.)

Marker installed: 2015

Nehemiah Page, born in Sampson Co., N. Car., fought in the War of 1812 and survived the Fort Mims attack near Mobile, Ala. He married Elizabeth Crane in Hinds Co., Miss. In 1830, and the couple had seven children. The family moved to Texas in the 1850s, settling on 320 acres and building a log house about half a mile from this family cemetery. Elizabeth was the first burial on Jan. 22, 1862, and Nehemiah was buried the following year. By the turn of the 21st century there were 38 graves, all for Page family descendants or relatives. Notable graves include the Woodmen of the World monument for W. J. Havard and burials for veterans of the War of 1812, Civil War, and World War II. The Page Cemetery Association formed in 1987 to care for this sacred ground.

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