King Cemetery - Leon County, Texas

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King Cemetery

This is a White Cemetery

Located at the intersection of FM 811 and FM 1119

There is one grave stone/historical marker at this site, that being –
        R. Baxter KING
Who participated in the Battle of Salado Creek, Bexar County,
and joined the Mier  Expedition 1842
First tax collector of Leon County
Born in Tennessee
Died 1872

On November 26, 1999 Homer Coleman took Herbert H. McCarter out into his
pasture and showed him the actual place where Mr. King was supposed to be
buried.  No one really knows who else was buried here.  Mr. Coleman said that
an old black man had at one time said that his Daddy was buried here also, but
no one knows for sure.

Mr. Coleman said that tradition says that this monument is sitting where it is
instead of the actual burial site is that when the people from the State came
out to erect it back in 1936 that the weather was bad and the road was in such
a mess that they took it upon themselves to put it in this location to make it
easier on themselves.

Herbert H. McCarter