Sandy Point Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Rosharon, Texas

( FM 521 about 3 mi. north of Rosharon)

Marker installed: 2003

Early county cemetery. Started before 1845. Land once part of great sugar and cotton plantations. Buried in this tract are veterans of 1836 Texas Revolution and Civil War (1861-65); also members of ill-fated Mier Expedition.

Col. B. F. Terry, organizer of Terry's Texas Rangers, was formerly buried here. (1970).

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