Keywords: Scene from Morton Cemetery in Richmond, Texas, southwest of Houston LCCN2014633338.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; The cemetery was begun in by William Morton a farmer stock raiser brickmaker and Freemason as the final resting place for Robert Gillespie a fellow Mason Morton was one of Stephen F Austin's Old Three Hundred actually 297 grantees made up of families and some partnerships of unmarried men who in 1825 purchased 307 leagues of land 4428 acres from Austin and with the Mexican government's approval established a colony in South Texas ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2014633338 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/29100/29138a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 29138 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 29138 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith |