Fort Sherman Cemetery, also known as Miller Cemetery, is located on the F.W. Benson Survey in Southwestern Titus County. It is about 14 miles from Mt. Pleasant in what is now the Bob Sandlin State Park.
The Fort Sherman Cemetery may be Titus County's oldest, since some of the county's earliest settlement was in that area in the early 1830's. Old Fort Sherman, for which it is named, was established nearby in 1839. The Fort Sherman Cemetery is sometimes called the Miller cemetery, probably from the names of those buried there. The cemetery now contains only two Miller family monuments of T. H. Miller and Wife. Members of the Scott, Benson, Miller, and other families are buried in the cemetery.
A chain link fence surrounds the cemetery and the State of Texas maintains the cemetery. It is impossible to determine how many graves may be enclosed by the large perimeter fence, since the elements and development removed many of the indicators. A person raised in the Monticello community said that when he was young that the cemetery covered considerably more ground than the area currently fenced. He remembers seeing many depressions in the ground in the area now covered by the drive and parking lot to the left side of the photo above.
DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM THE TITUS COUNTY COURTHOUSE:
Travel 0.5 mile West on West First Street to the intersection of Ferguson Road (U.S. Highway 271). Veer to the left and cross the intersection at the traffic light onto South O'Tyson Street which becomes Texas FM 127. Travel 10.7 miles South on FM 127 to its intersection with FM 21 in the Blodgett community. Veer left at the FM 21 stop sign and proceed 1.0 mile to the Bob Sandlin State Park entrance on the left.
Turn left onto the Park Road and continue for 0.4 miles to an intersecting Park Road. Turn right at the stop sign and continue for 0.5 mile. Turn right into the parking lot area. The cemetery lies 0.1 mile on the right. Adequate parking and an entrance gate to the cemetery are there.
Fort Sherman Cemetery is located inside Bob Sandlin State Park in the Blodgett Community
GPS COORDINATES: 33°02.901' N 095°005.603' W
DECORATION DAY: None
MARKED BURIALS INDEXED IN TCS DATABASE: 6 (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-marked burials that could not be included in the Titus Cemetery Search database.)
LAST TCS PHYSICAL SURVEY: 2006-02-14
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.
Bob Sandlin State Park sign on Texas FM-21
Fort Sherman Cemetery is located in a grove of trees enclosed by a chain-link fence
Fort Sherman Cemetery
Highway 21 S., Blodgett, Titus County, Texas
also known as Miller Cemetery
