Marker Inscription
More than six acres here of the Mexican land grant acquired in 1824 by "Old 300" colonist Churchill Fulshear, Jr., were donated to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, by Churchill Fulshear, Jr., in 1851. Originally Union Chappel Cemetery, it was renamed Fulshear for the town that developed here in the 1890s. The first recorded burial is that of Mahalia Sparks in 1850. A church building and school were erected here in the 1850s. The church relocated to fulshear in 1894. Original church trustees were Randolph Foster, the Rev. John Patton, J. W. Miller, G. D. Parker, William Wade, and e. H. Kemp.
About this site
Fulshear Cemetery is a historical marker in Fulshear, Fort Bend County, dedicated in 1994. It is one of 90 historical markers documented in Fort Bend County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 237 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 29.7001, -95.9080 near Fulshear. The nearest cataloged historic site is Fulshear Spanish (cemetery), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Albert and Ethel Herzstein, Leonard Clay, Jr. Gravesite and cemetery, and Bains Family.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5157008999. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
