Location: Bethlehem Cemetery-Roans Prairie-Black-- H&P, Grimes Co Hist: “AA, [no details] near Roans Prairie.” Related topic?? Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery (Old) Recorded: GRIM11, GRIM12: . Parsons.. Tombstone/Rootsweb, TxDoT map. S of Roans Prairie, just off Hwy 90, E side of road. H&P, Grimes Co Hist.: “Bethlehem Ch. has two cemeteries, Old and New. At one time there was a church school and cemetery located where the old cemetery is today. When hwys were built the church moved to new location and a new cem. was opened up. Most of old ‘pioneers’ of the church are in old cem. Approx. list of 25-50 burials, plus some unmarked graves. [No dates or details given.] New cem. has approx 50-100 burials, earliest about 1960s, plus some unmarked graves. Cem. club keep up both sites, 3rd Sun of July. Com. incl. Major White, Bob Johnson, G. White, Velma White. [No location details provided.]” SEE Cemeteries of Grimes County, vols 1-5 John Maxwell, GCHC.THC site visit MB 4/28/04 SH 90 just S of Roans Prairie at CR 225. Pastor 936/837-2519. Behind church. Formal markers, diversity over time. Some local casting and creative markers. Crosses, carnes, curbing.. Adjacent to roadway, pastures and woodland. Marker tress, Cedar, Crape Myrtle, Roses, Arborvitae, also Pines and scattered Oaks. San Augustine Grass. Some mounding. US veterans. Adjacent to woodland and church on roadway. About 200 ft. E of church. Approx 1.4 acres. GPS 30.33.32.8335N –95.57.34.16112W Quad 3095-322Low endangerment: maintained, fenced, near residences and associated church, recent burials. Quad 3095-322.
To address the problem of cemetery destruction and to record as many cemeteries as possible, the
Texas Historical Commission offers the Historic Texas Cemetery designation.
The Historic
Texas Cemetery designation was developed in 1998 to help protect historic cemeteries by
recording cemetery boundaries in county deed records to alert present and future owners of land adjacent
to the cemetery of its existence. Every county in Texas has at least one cemetery designated as a Historic
Texas Cemetery through this program. The HTC designation is the first step toward preservation of a historic cemetery.
A cemetery is eligible for designation if it is at least 50 years old and is deemed worthy of recognition
for its historical associations. The very nature of a cemetery being a landmark of a family’s or community’s
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