Egypt, TX, United States
Egypt Plantation Cemetery. Egypt Plantation Cemetery In 1838, William Jones Elliot Heard purchased more than 2,000 acres of land from John C. Clark and established the Egypt Plantation in what is now Wharton County. He set aside three acres for a cemetery. Early graves were covered with brick crypts
, and the oldest marked grave is that of George S. Heard, the youngest of Heard's four children, who died on January 8, 1854. Andrew Northington's grave dates to October of that same year. Heard's wif
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