Overview
The resting place for many of the first inhabitants of Manor, TX
Tags
- Funeral Service Cemetery
- Landmark Historical Place
- Funeral Service & Cemetery
- Landmark & Historical Place
Description
The Rector cemetery was established with the burial of Millennium K. (Jenkins) Alexander, it's first resident, in 1855 and became the resting place for many others until it's final addition of James Mason Rector in 1957.
The history of the lives represented is a cross section of the pre- and post-Civil War era. They include early settlers who traveled in covered wagons, Confederate War veterans, druggists, Masons Lodge founders, retired Judges, farmers, ranchers, elected officials, plantation owners, farm hands, and John Manor’s first wife, Phoebe.
She who travelled with her husband from Tennessee to negotiate with area Native American Indian tribes on behalf of President Andrew Jackson. Almost half of those buried are children under the age of 10, and half of those were infants, which is representative of the hardships and difficulties these founding Texans endured.
During their lives many of them experienced events such as the Independence of the Republic of Texas and it's evolution into a U.S. State; the industrial revolution which brought about the Texas railroad, the first Texas air flight, electricity, and the telegraph; the Confederate War and abolition of slavery; the completion of the current State Capitol building; prohibition on alcohol; and the discovery of oil in Texas.
