Sandies Chapel Cemetery

This cemetery first served as a burial ground for the family of Joseph and Catherine McCoy, pioneer settlers in the Green DeWitt Colony. It was later used by residents of the Sandies Chapel community. The earliest graves date from the 1860s. Among those interred here are San Jacinto veteran William Taylor, citizens of the Republic of Texas, local Masonic leaders, and Civil War veterans, including members of the Sandies home guard. Also buried here are four pioneer Methodist ministers, A. A. Smithwick, T. G. Russell, James E. Vernor, and C. W. Elkins.

Sandies Chapel Cemetery is a historical marker in Nixon, Gonzales County, dedicated in 1986. It is one of 94 historical markers documented in Gonzales County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 186 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.3776, -97.8083 near Nixon. The nearest cataloged historic site is Sandies-Dewville Community (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Dewville, Dewville United Methodist Church, and Sandies Chapel.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5177004566. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.