Sterling Cemetery

Sterling Cemetery is the burial place of some 400 Texas pioneers and their descendants. It stands on land granted in 1835 to A.J. Webb and bought in 1850 by Judge Robert Calvert, a civic leader in Sterling, a town named for Empresario Sterling C. Robertson. Calvert dedicated the 11.1-acre cemetery and built the adjacent Cumberland Presbyterian Church from timber taken from his own plantation. In 1867, Judge Calvert died and was buried near the cemetery gate. The church building was then moved by oxen to the new town of Calvert, 2 miles east. In 1868, his wife, Mary Keesee Calvert, and their three daughters deeded the cemetery site to the Cumberland Presbyterians.

Texas · United States