Inspired by the cemetery Sesquicentennial Celebration and subsequent
Texas Historical Marker, Providence Community
members donated five grave markers for the oldest graves-to preserve
the names and dates of :
First Settler or Slave 1836,
Elizabeth Hughes 1806-1841,
Catharine Harvey 1816-1859,
Mary Chadwick 1825-1846,
and Henry T. Prewitt 1851