DUANE
Duane's take
Here's my telling of what the official marker has to say about Sandy Point Cemetery, out in Brazoria County. Now, there are cemeteries, and then there are cemeteries. Sandy Point is the second kind — the kind that was already old before Texas was even a republic with its boots fully laced.
This ground started receiving the dead before 1845. Let that settle in for a moment. Before 1845.
The land around it was no modest homestead, either. This was plantation country — great sugar and cotton plantations, the marker tells us — the kind of operations that shaped the whole early character of Brazoria County, for better and for worse. And the people buried in this tract?
They carried some weight. Veterans of the 1836 Texas Revolution rest here. Men who fought in the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, rest here.
And here's where the story takes a particular turn — members of the ill-fated Mier Expedition are buried in this ground too. The marker calls it ill-fated, and it earns that word. Sandy Point holds some of those men now.
Then there's this detail — Colonel B. F. Terry, the organizer of Terry's Texas Rangers, was formerly buried here.
Formerly. Meaning at some point, this was his resting place. The cemetery held him, and then it didn't.
That's Sandy Point. A patch of Brazoria County earth that started quietly, before 1845, and just kept accumulating history — revolution, war, expedition, and legend — one burial at a time.
What the marker says
Early county cemetery. Started before 1845. Land once part of great sugar and cotton plantations. Buried in this tract are veterans of 1836 Texas Revolution and Civil War (1861-65); also members of ill-fated Mier Expedition. Col. B. F. Terry, organizer of Terry's Texas Rangers, was formerly buried here. (1970)