Lily White (Hedwig Village)

Harris County, TX

Status: Located

Year Established: Unknown

Council of Governments: H-GAC

Public History: Lily White was a Black community on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line and Post Oak Road, near the site of what is now Hedwig Village in west central Harris County. At one time the rural community had a church, a school, a cemetery, and scattered dwellings.

Reuben White (1795-1848), one of Stephen F. Austin’s original “Old 300” colonists, acquired a Mexican land grant here in 1824. White was part of a large extended family which settled this area, later known as White Settlement. Although White’s is the earliest recorded burial here, older grave sites are believed to exist. Formally set aside as the White Family Cemetery in 1850, this eventually became a community graveyard. Interred here are many area pioneers and their descendants, and veterans of conflicts from the Texas Revolution to the Vietnam War.

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Cemetery: White