Owen Cemetery

David Allen Owen came to Texas in 1851 from Randolph County, Alabama, traveling to Henderson County with his first wife, Mary (Langsdon), their five children, family members, and others; Mary died en route. Owen served as chief justice, or county judge, from 1860 to 1869, was a pioneer member of the Pilgrim's Rest Primitive Baptist Church at Baxter, later settled in the Mill Run community, and set aside part of his land for a cemetery. The earliest marked grave is that of his son Silas Monk Owen, who died in 1873. Friends and neighbors as well as other Owen family members are buried there, and tombstones dated before 1900 bear the names Clayton, Davis, Hanks, Hester, Moon, Ratcliff, Regester, and Rogers. Also buried there are David Allen Owen; his second wife, Lucinda (Woodard); sons Jefferson Davis, David Randolph, Jordan Wade, Joseph Collins, and Dewitt Judson; and Mary Matilda (Clayton) Pace, a daughter by his first wife. Although many graves are unmarked or marked only with rocks, the cemetery remains part of the recorded history of this area of Henderson County.

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