Grape Creek Cemetery

1.6 mi south-west of Navarro · Directions →

Texas Historical Marker · 1980 · Marker 7206

The marker

G. W. Eliot donated land at this site for a school, Methodist church, parsonage, and graveyard. Burials in the cemetery began about 1881. The Doolen, Duncan, Eliot, Humphries, Metcalf, Rakestraw, Smith, Stokes, Wimberly, and other families lived in the area at that time. The school consolidated with Navarro in 1928 and the building was relocated. The church meetinghouse was destroyed by fire in 1975. The next year a steel tabernacle was erected. It serves as the location for the annual memorial services of the Grape Creek Cemetery Association.

Where it stands

from Corsicana, take I-45 about 8 miles to CR SE 1050, go 1.3 mi. east to SE 1020, go south about 1.1 mi. to cemetery

See also Grape Creek on the cemeteries page.

Source: Texas Historical Commission, Texas Historic Sites Atlas, record 5349007206, read 17 September 2026.