Cedar Bayou Masonic Cemetery
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jhuoni
N 29° 45.298 W 094° 55.647
15R E 313629 N 3293190
The middle of three cemeteries located in a row on Ferry Drive.
Waymark Code: WMXZNN
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2018
Views: 5
Located behind the Historic Cedar Bayou Masonic Lodge No. 321 A.F. & A.M. There is an open pavillion behind the cemetery sign.
Although it is still active, most of the headstones here are from the early 20th century.
There is one Texas Historical Marker, at the grave site of Joseph William Ellender:
(May 25, 1840 - February 24, 1917)
British seaman Joseph William Ellender was shipwrecked off the coast of Iceland in 1866 and rescued by a schooner bound for Galveston. He settled in Cedar Bayou and married Nancy Lavenia Prather in 1868. They had ten children. A Master Mason, Ellender served as worshipful master of Cedar Bayou Lodge three times. He organized the Cedar Bayou chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in 1884 and was Worthy Grand Patron of Texas in 1889.
Recorded - 1985
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Cedar Bayou, Harris County, Texas, USA
Approximate number of graves: 800
Cemetery Status: Active
Cemetery Website: Not listed
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