Historical Marker

Sweeny Cemetery

Historical marker location:
Sweeny, Texas
( north side of Sweeny, next to flag pole, FM 524)
Marker installed: 1966

Begun as family burial ground when John Sweeny, early landowner, member of Stephen F. Austin's colony, chose this site for burial of his young daughter, Freedonia, 1833. In use ever since by the neighborhood. Has graves of veterans of all wars since Texas Revolution.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1966.