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 Shady Grove Cemetery
N 32° 51.408 W 095° 16.375
15S E 287308 N 3637702
Texas Historical Marker at the Shady Grove Cemetery, south of Winnsboro, providing some history of this vanished community and the cemetery and old church which survived it.
Waymark Code: WM101C2
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/08/2019
Views: 4
A Wood County Historical Commission sign stands in front of the old Shady Grove Methodist Church across the road, complementing the historical marker (slightly edited):
Early Texas settlement. First permanent settler was Reuben Elledge who came to Texas in 1845. Wood County's first school established here in 1850. In 1850's a Methodist denomination organized. Cemetery established in 1855.
At one time Shady Grove had a gin, church and 8 grade school. Little evidence remains of a thriving 19th century farming community, only descendants of early settlers, cemetery and a historical marker to tell the story of Shady Grove.
Marker Number: 13249
Marker Text:
This open landscape cemetery, one of the oldest burial grounds in Wood County, first served pioneer settlers of the Shady Grove community. One of the earliest area settlers was Reuben Elledge, who brought his family here c. 1845. Elledge figured prominently in the development of Wood County as a commissioner and chief justice (county judge). In 1850, he donated land to the community for a school and Methodist Episcopal Church, South. One acre of the Elledge land was later set aside for this cemetery.
The earliest known gravesite, unmarked except for a tree for many years, was for young Bobby Scoggins, who drowned in 1855. Also buried here are Elledge, three-term county sheriff John Boyd and veterans of military conflicts dating to the Civil War.
Expanded through the years, Shady Grove Cemetery is a reminder of early settlement in the area. Features include rock cairns, decorative fencing, ornate stone carvings, curbed plots, obelisks and Woodmen of the World monuments. The Methodist Church disbanded in 1993, and its chapel is now used for funerals and for annual memorial events.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2003
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