Black plaque № 49478

Grapeland vicinity, TX, United States

Refuge Cemetery. Reuben (1805-1859) and Sarah Parker (1807-1852) Brown came from Illinois to settle here in 1833. Their oldest son, John (1837-1921), lived his entire life within a mile of Old Fort Brown, his birthplace. In 1865, when John deeded two acres to Houston County for a church and school,

his parents had already been laid to rest at the site that his mother-in-law, Mary Murchison (1814-1903), chose to call “Refuge.” Jim Brown (1858-1932), son of Reuben and his second wife, Amanda (Ross

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