Brookshire, TX, United States
Wade Cemetery. This burial ground was established in 1846 by William Wade, a wealthy plantation owner from Mississippi who came to Texas by the 1820s. He purchased considerable acreage from members of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundren Colony. By the 1840s, Wade owned over 11,000 acres of Republi
c of Texas land. His plantation extended from what was then Austin County (now Waller County) to the banks of the Brazos River. Wade brought horses and other livestock to the area, along with many wor
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