A Brief History...
Friendship Cemetery was founded around 1830, when the cemetery was located at the southeast corner of what is now the intersection of Friendship Rd. and Washington St.. The community at that time was principally people from the North, and was called “Yankee Town.” The land fell in to the hands of a man who forbade further burials there. In October of 1861, Mr. Nolan Stewart who owned the land south and west of “Rock Creek,” lost a child. He and Mr. Madison Walsh decided on the present site of Friendship Cemetery. Mr. Stewart buried his child there and deeded one acre of land for Friendship Cemetery.
In 1866 Mr. Walsh who owned land just east of the cemetery donated some land for a school building. On the site a log cabin was erected. To promote some social life in the community a Sunday School was organized in the fall of 1866. Church Services were held by “circuit riders.” The log cabin was christened “Friendship.” More land has been added to the original acre either by donation or bought. The last in 1979.
Friendship Cemetery has served three eras: “The Republic of Texas”, “The Confederacy”, and the “Union of the States.” There are people here who served in the “Civil War”, the “Spanish American War”, and World War I and II as well as other wars and conflicts of our time.
Please check out the photo provided by Roland Desjardins
