Titus County, Texas Cemetery Search - East New Hope Cemetery

East New Hope Cemetery is a large public cemetery, located across the road from the East New Hope Baptist Church in rural southeast Titus County. The cemetery is surrounded by a chain link fence and wrought iron entry gates framed by brick columns form its entrance. The brick columns are topped with a large arched sign. The cemetery is well maintained and was recently enlarged to accommodate burials well into the future. Very little cemetery history was found, even though it contains some of Titus County's earliest graves. The earliest burial date shown on a tombstone is that of Mary Madison in 1886. Lynch Harper's “Cemeteries of Titus County” states that the earliest cemetery deed was in 1898.

Unlike similar cemeteries, only one native stone and one concrete block marker were found in the cemetery which may indicate that similar markers were removed to facilitate maintenance. Twenty seven granite plates that must have been installed to mark known grave sites that were without monuments were found during the survey.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM THE TITUS COUNTY COURTHOUSE:

Drive 0.3 miles south on Madison Street to the intersection of Ferguson Road (U.S. Highway 271). Turn left (east) on Ferguson Road (which becomes Texas Highway 49) and travel 3.8 miles to the intersection of Texas FM 1735 (Chapel Hill Road). Turn right onto FM 1735 and continue for 1.5 miles. The cemetery is on the right.

GPS COORDINATES: 33°07.089' N 094°53.737' W

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MARKED BURIALS INDEXED IN TCS DATABASE: 537 (2008-04-01)

FREE BURIAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS CEMETERY.

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(NOTE: This cemetery contains un-named burials marked by irregular makers like natural stones and other methods that could not be included in the Titus Cemetery Search database.)

LAST TCS PHYSICAL SURVEY: 2005-09-13

Historical information for this cemetery was provided by and used with the permission of David Horton, and was compiled from Mr. Horton's work and the earlier work of Lynch Harper. Map provided courtesy of Ark-La-Tex Council of Governments GIS department. Please forward any mapping questions to http://www.atcog.org/gis_mapping.htm.