Denson Homesite and Cemetery

Near this site are remains of the 19th-century home and burial ground of John and Mary Ann Denson's family. John Denson, born in 1815, came to this area in 1835 with his parents, Thomas C. and Polly Denson, who were Predestination Baptists with elder Daniel Parker. In 1837 John signed the petition to create Houston County. In 1839 he married Mary Ann Crawford Houston, born in 1817, whose first husband was, by family tradition, a relative of Sam Houston. They raised their children in a log house on the banks of Bennett Creek, and as family members died they were buried near the homesite. The last burials occurred in 1890, and family records identify 18 burials in the pioneer cemetery.

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