Evergreen Cemetery is located in far northeast Titus County about 15 miles east of Talco on FM Highway 71 and about one mile from the Morris County line. It lies in the forks of Titus County Road 3925 and Farm Road 71.
Evergreen is an old, abandoned African-American cemetery that will soon be lost without proper maintenance. Members of the Logan, Price, and other families are buried in this cemetery. At least thirteen unmarked graves are visible. Eight native stones remain to mark some of the graves. One stone has the initials D. A. W. and E. G. W. scratched into it. The cemetery contains only one monument. It is in memory of Mose Price born: March 3, 1853 died: March 12, 1920
DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM THE TITUS COUNTY COURTHOUSE:
Travel 1.4 miles north on north Jefferson Street (Business U.S. 271) to its intersection with Burton Road (the south service road of Interstate 30).
Turn right (east) onto the service road and continue 0.5 miles to the intersection of Texas Farm Road 1402 (Harts Bluff Road).
Turn left (north) at the stop sign and cross Interstate 30 on FM 1402.
Proceed for 12.4 miles to the intersection of FM 71.
Turn right (east) onto FM 71 and proceed 6.6 miles to the intersection from the left of CR 3925.
Turn left onto CR 3925. The cemetery will lie on left about 0.1 mile.
Evergreen Cemetery well fenced, but is overgrown and in need of cleaning before graves are lost.
The only monument in the cemetery belongs to Mose Price. The top portion has fallen and is leaned up against the base
GPS COORDINATES: 33°20.030' N 094°50.596' W
DECORATION DAY: None
MARKED BURIALS INDEXED IN TCS DATABASE: 1 (2008-04-01)
FREE BURIAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS CEMETERY.
SEE "HOW TO REQUEST BURIAL INFORMATION" PAGE FOR DETAILS.
(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: 2007-01-06
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.
A few natural stones marking other graves are visible
Several ground depressions indicate unmarked graves
Evergreen Cemetery is located in a grove of trees at the intersection of Titus County Road 3925 and Texas Farm Road 71
Evergreen Cemetery is well fenced, but is overgrown with underbrush
