Greathouse Cemetery

The Rev. Early Greathouse (1810-1885) was ordained to the ministry in Georgia in 1846. He moved to Alabama in 1852, where he served in the state legislature and the Constitutional Conventions of 1865 and 1867. In 1870 Greathouse and his family arrived in Texas and bought land south of the present site of Temple. He built the first cotton gin in the area, and soon organized both the Knob Creek and Mt. Vernon Baptist Churches. He also set aside a tract of land to be used for a cemetery, probably in 1871. Though originally used as a family burial ground, other people of the community were later interred here. The oldest marked grave is that of Mattie Lee Clopton (1863-1875), granddaughter of Early Greathouse. Also buried here are several former slaves who came to Texas with the Greathouse family, and veterans of the Civil War and both world wars, as well as one survivor of the Battle of San Jacinto. The Rev. Early Greathouse and his wife, the former Susan Talley, were the parents of ten children. In 1884 the Rev. and Mrs. Greathouse deeded a large tract of land to a daughter, who in turn sold one acre to the trustees of the Greathouse Cemetery Association of Bell County in 1908. (1986)

Greathouse Cemetery is a historical marker in Temple vicinity, Bell County, dedicated in 1986. It is one of 226 historical markers documented in Bell County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 411 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 31.0301, -97.3391 near Temple vicinity. The nearest cataloged historic site is Marshall, John Leggett (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Memorial Baptist Church of Temple, Blackland Experiment Station, Substation No. 5, and Green Oaks Farm.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5027002267. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.