Content Cemetery

Historical marker location:

FM 382, Crews, Texas

( from Crews, go north on FM 382, past FM 1770 intersection, then go 1 mile and turn east on county road 0.25 mi (private))

Marker installed: 1972

Opened 1883 with burial of a cowboy, James Hanna. Confederate veteran John A. Hanna, of Co. A, 8th regt., Texas Cavalry, Army of Tennessee, was buried here 1889.

Their sister Amanda, her husband John Hardegree, and two children, and three of John A. Hanna's infant grandchildren also rest here.

gravesites

The discovery of oil in 1901 near Beaumont, Texas, sparked an oil boom that transformed the state's economy and led to the rise of the modern petroleum industry.