The Briscoe Family Private Cemetery is located at 5827 & ½  FM 723 in Richmond, Texas on the William Andrus A-3 Survey. The land is comprised of 3 tracts, .581 acre tract (Volume 385, Page 173), a .478 acre tract (Volume 2308, Page 1704), and a 1.41 acre tract (FBC 20090752800). In 2022, the cemetery sold .119 acres to the State of Texas on 4/26/2022 for the widening of FM 723 (Deed record – 2022018698) for a new total of 2.341 acres.

When General Parmenas Briscoe came to the area which is now known as Fort Bend County, Texas in 1835, he purchased five thousand acres of land. One of his sons, James Montgomery Briscoe (1812-1852), inherited part of that land. Upon James’ and his wife’s (Susan) early deaths from Cholera, the property was left to their son, William Montgomery Briscoe (1851 – 1899), and then to their grandson, Andrew Clyde Briscoe Sr. (1897 – 1980), who together with the children of Andrew Clyde Briscoe Jr. donated the land to the cemetery. Currently, there are 52 known graves with the oldest one being Annie Chilton Briscoe who died in 1881. Burial in the cemetery is restricted to the descendants of James Montgomery Briscoe and Susan Hibernia Mason Briscoe, their current spouses, and their legally adopted children.

In 1958, Georgie Briscoe Briscoe established The William Briscoe Cemetery Trust at the First State Bank of Uvalde with a $10,000 endowment to provide for perpetual care of the cemetery. The trust is still in existence and continues to be managed by the First State Bank of Uvalde. 

The Briscoe Family Private Cemetery Association (BFPCA) was also established in 1958 for the purpose of governing, improving, and maintaining the Briscoe Family Private Cemetery. The Association is operated as a nonprofit (501 c13) and is not permitted to engage in any business unrelated to family burials, expansion of the existing cemetery, or associated maintenance/improvement of the property. All persons having burial privileges are entitled to membership in the Association, subject to the rules and regulations of the Association. The BFPCA is run by a 7 - 8 member volunteer Board of Trustees who are descendants of James Montgomery Briscoe and who represent the five remaining family branches. The current board of trustees is comprised of: Amy Briscoe-Eagle; Charlie Mahler; Frank Briscoe, Jr.;  Mary Claire Huntington; Mary Thornhill; Clayton Nix, and Frank Williford.