Titus County, Texas Cemetery Search - Liberty Hill Cemetery

Liberty Hill Cemetery is located at the Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church in rural Northeast Titus County. It is one of the largest rural cemeteries in the county. Not much history was found on the cemetery's origin, but on October 22, 1879, Samuel J. Wright deeded the original two acres of land for the sum of $4.00 to Archabald Cameron, E. J. Johnson and William Griffin to be used exclusively for a school, church and cemetery. Different people deeded other parcels later.

As with most Titus County Cemeteries, Liberty Hill depends on the donations of friends and relatives of those interred here for funding. Annual Decoration Day services are held at 10:00 AM on the 4th Saturday of April to honor those interred by placing flowers and ornaments on the graves and socializing with a covered dish luncheon. A special effort is made to gather donations that day.

A chain link fence surrounds the cemetery and the grounds very well maintained. Some time ago known, but unmarked, grave sites were marked with small, flat concrete slabs. Two hundred fourteen of these markers remain. Other grave sites are marked by 2 concrete foundation blocks, 2 regular concrete building blocks, 8 funeral home markers, 17 chunks of petrified wood, a granite block , a small ceramic cross, 7 concrete slabs measuring roughly 6"x6"x18", a funeral home marker with only “Diana” written on it, 3 native stones, a broken clay pot, a concrete slab that has “Miller” written over “Charlton” on it, a monument base without a monument, and 1 granite slab.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM THE TITUS COUNTY COURTHOUSE:

Travel 1.4 miles North on Jefferson Street to the intersection with Burton Road (I-30 service road). Turn right (east) onto Burton Road. The Interstate 30 entrance ramp is 0.2 mile on the left from the intersection. Enter Interstate 30 and proceed East 2.9 miles. Exit at Exit 165 (Texas FM 1001). Turn left (North) at the exit ramp stop sign onto FM 1001. The cemetery will lie on the right side of FM 1001 2.9 miles north of Interstate 30 at the intersection of Titus County Road 3825.

GPS COORDINATES: 33°13.613' N 094°53.979' W

DECORATION DAY: Fourth Saturday of April at 10:00 A.M.

MARKED BURIALS INDEXED IN TCS DATABASE: 1,360 (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: 2006-03-13

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.