Historical Marker
Peaster Cemetery
Historical marker location:
On McClendon Rd. off FM 920, Peaster, Texas
( From Peaster, take FM 920, .25 mile north, turn east onto McClendon Road, continue for .5 mile to Cemetery Road, cemetery is 100 yards south.)
Marker installed: 1994
South Carolina native Henry H. Peaster purchased 160 acres here in 1870. The village of Peaster began with Henry Peaster's sale of town lots here in the late 1880s. The earliest recorded burial is that of Mary D. Hunt in 1886. In 1893 Peaster donated two acres here for cemetery purposes. Still active, the cemetery contains the graves of early area settlers and their descendants; veterans of the Civil War, World War I, and World War II; and Peaster's most famous citizen, John Alexander Fox, who created the "Buster Brown" character for the Buster Brown Shoe Company's advertising campaign.
Sesquicentennial of Texas Statehood 1845-1995.