George Bell Madeley, born at Trittiford in Hall Green near Birmingham, England, in 1815, emigrated to Texas about 1845. In Harrisburg he met and married Helen Adeline Grant, born in 1821 and a native of Yardley, England. The following year they established their home in this area, then known as Egypt community. Madeley became a successful planter, and his Egypt farm was a model of self-sufficiency, with orchards, a cotton gin, a grist mill, vineyards, a sugar mill, cattle, and cultivated lands of cotton and sugar cane. The cemetery on the Madeley farm began in 1848 with the burial of Madeley's brother-in-law, John Hurley, an Englishman who was the husband of Helen Madeley's sister Teresa. George Bell Madeley died in 1879 and was buried there, as was his wife, who died in 1897. Other burials include family members and friends, including three of the Madeleys' sons. Maintained by family descendants, the cemetery remains an important reminder of a successful early planter family and reflects the influence of European immigration on the development of Texas.