Brewer Family Cemetery

Background: Small privately owned located just inside the Freestone county line. Green Berry Brewer filled for land on October 10, 1835 from the State of Coahuila and Texas, Mexico. Brewer got the land after paying the Mexican government $62.50 on October 26, 1835. Later this was to become the Brewer Prairie community (the precursor to Teague).

Cemetery Description: Covers about 1/3 acre with cyclone fence enclosure.

Location: 6 miles east of Donie.

Directions: From Donie, take a left on FM-164, travel 1.8 miles towards Buffalo, take another left and travel .3 miles on a gravel road and you will see a small wooden sign. Take a left and go .2 miles on a narrow road.

Number of Gaves: 8 fieldstone markers, number of iron-ore rocks marking burial sites, and three sites marked with seashells.

Oldest Marked Grave: Aug 18, 1872 Susan Hall

Three seashell grave covers - no markers

Brewer, Barton E.
    son of W. F. & L. E.
 9/4/1894  11/24/1900
Brewer, Dan  9/12/1829  12/13/1892
Brewer, Effie Bryan  10/1/1881  2/16/1968
Brewer, J. W.
    seashells on grave
 10/1/1837  12/6/1875
Brewer, Luther Newton  7/22/1878  11/13/1939
Brewer, Mabel  2/23/1898  1/16/1901
Brewer, Otis Virgil Sr.
    hus of Mary Bobbie (Holland) Brewer
    son of Luther N.
 9/13/1907  3/21/1983
Brewer, R. H.  7/17/1910  4/12/1952
Brewer, Ruth  1/1/1913  8/23/1914
Brown, Fanny W.  10/1/1826  11/10/1879
Hall, A. L.
    wife of B. F.
 11/1/1855  1/14/1877
Hall, J. T.
    son of B. F. & A. L.
 9/15/1874  1/9/1876
Hall, Johnnie  4/10/1876  6/9/1877
Hall, Susan
    dau of B. F. & A. L.
 2/28/1872  8/18/1872