Located at the edge of the downtown, this cemetery is a Houston City Park. Long overlooked and neglected by the burgeoning city of Houston, the Daughters of the American Revolution adopted the Cemetery in 1936 to honor the gravesite of a "real" Daughter, Sallie Chapman Allen. Her father fought in the American Revolution and she was the mother of the Allen brothers, the developers who founded the city on a bend of Buffalo Bayou. Many graves are no longer marked, the stones trampled by grazing cattle or drunken vandals. Ghosts appear here year round, but beware the cemetery is locked at sundown. Take a step back in time now, to learn about the courageous and daring people who first lived and died in this frontier town. Look about and you will find a signer of the Goliad Declaration of Independance ( Come and Take It), signers of the Texas Declaration of Independance, refugeees of the Runaway Scrape, and veterans of the Battle of San Jacinto. People from all walks of life, from around the country and the world, are our earliest heroes including the Commodore of the Texas Navy, the first sheriff of Harris County, a Postmaster General and the mother of a President of the Republic of Texas. The gates are open from sunrise to sunset. There is street parking nearby. It is fairly accessible to all, and safe during the daytime. The cache is located inside the Cemetery.