Location: Harmony Cemetery, Navasota area. SEE Cemeteries of Grimes County, vols 1-5 John Maxwell, GCHC.THC site visit MB 4/17/04 Harmony Church has two cemetery sites, adjacent to each other and the church, dinstinctly fenced with no connecting gate, one black, one white. Off SH 105, E of Navasota NE on CR 407 for about 2.2 miles to church and two cemeteries, white and black. Fenced site with Cdear marker trees, Crape Myrtle, Honeysuckle. Observed multiple vistation rocks. Irises, San Augustine grass. US veterans, Masonic. Adjacent cemetery THC subject marker HTC, at white Harmoney Cemetery, has no mention of adjacent black cem.Harmony Church Cem, AA, is behind the church building and picnic pavilion on N side of hilltop slope. Near pavilion are a kitchen areas and also a maintained privy. Adjacent area wooded and rural residential with some pastures. Some evidence of wooded subdivision growth. Quad 3095-232About 100 ft. behind church. Approx 1 acre. GPS 30.22.30.69284N –95.59.20.73955W. Quad 3095-232Low endangerment: maintained, fenced, nearby church, homes, recent burials. SEE Notes.
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
presence is considered to validate the criteria of historical associations. Any individual, organization, or
agency may submit a request for designation.