Bethel Cemetery Holds Madison County History
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Bethel Cemetery lies in Grimes County, just south of our county line. It has a state historical marker and is older than Madison County, which was created from Grimes, Leon, and Walker counties and by the State legislature on January 27, 1853, and organized in August 1854. Dates are illegible on some Bethel gravestones, but John Hope Byers was buried there, having lived 1802-1850. Obviously 1850 preceded 1853.