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Damon Cemetery

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Damon Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Brazoria County. It began on December 13, 1837, with the burial of Sylvester Winn Damon, a relative, on the 1829 land grant of Abraham Darst, an Austin Colony settler. Use of this burial ground began within a year of the county's founding in December 1836.
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