Woods Chapel Cemetery

(1.5 miles southwest) Settlement of this area of Fisher County began in the early 1880s. A small frame building, erected near this site in 1883-1884, was used as a school and church. A cemetery was established and was in use by 1884. The church was named in honor of its first pastor, J. B. Woods. Among the first settlers here were Henry Clay Lyon (1815-1889) and his family. Lyon, a native of Tennessee, was a veteran of the Republic of Texas Army as well as the Confederate forces of the Civil War. Although Lyon is buried in the Woods Chapel Cemetery, a granite marker in his honor was placed in the Roby Cemetery at this site of the graves of his wife and children. Plans to reinter him next to his widow during the Texas Centennial of 1936 were never completed. The earliest marked grave in the Woods Chapel Cemetery is that of Sarah H. Lawrence (1881-1884), a granddaughter of Henry C. Lyon. Of the twenty-six marked graves here, thirteen are those of infants or small children. The graveyard also contains at least twenty-eight unmarked graves. An important part of Fisher County history, the cemetery is the site of an annual San Jacinto Day observance on April 21. (1988)

Woods Chapel Cemetery is a historical marker in Roby vicinity, Fisher County, dedicated in 1988. It is one of 15 historical markers documented in Fisher County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 27 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 32.7568, -100.2033 near Roby vicinity. The nearest cataloged historic site is McCaulley (cemetery), about 0.8 miles away. Others within a short drive include Rock House; The Old, Fisher County, and Sylvester.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5151005901. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.