Titus County Cemeteries Known to be Lost
We know of the following Titus County Cemeteries whose locations have been lost. The directions shown are from Lynch Harper's "Cemeteries of Titus County" published in the 1960's. Please contact us if you know the location of any of these cemeteries so we can document their exact locations even though no monuments remain.
Perryman T. Black family cemetery
About 10 miles north of Mt. Pleasant on the west side of Texas FM 2152. All markers were removed.
We would like to photograph the original site
Blackwell Family Cemetery
Broadstreet Cemetery
Approx. 3 miles Southeast of Mt. Pleasant, and some 400 yards West of the Old Cypress road from Union Hill.
It is about 1/2 mile from Farm Road 2348 and contains some sixteen graves marked by rock markers, but no monuments.
Christian Cemetery
Claunch Cemetery
Located in east central Titus County about 100 yards from the Interstate Highway 30 north access road.
Culp Cemetery
Located on Broseco Ranch land in northeastern Titus County in the C. M. Palmer Survey A-458.
Cemetery contains no monuments.
Dixon Cemetery
Located about 400 yards west of the Highway 271 near White Oak Creek on the Asa Rinehart Survey A-483 plot 1000.
Wooden stakes and rocks once marked grave sites, but no monuments.
Fishback Cemetery
All indications are that the cemetery lies in the J. M. Nugent Survey A-406 plot 150-154.
Thought to have only one monument erected for Dona Ludlow, Wife of C. T. Luldow, who died in 1898.
Gouldsboro Cemetery
Was located between Talco and Wilkinson on the South side of FM 71 about 1.5 miles East of Talco in the
M. V. Delgado Survey A-158 in plots 200/202.
The Gouldsboro school and church buildings were once located near the cemetery, but no trace of either remains.
Gouldsboro cemetery monuments were moved to Talco cemetery and no monuments remain.
Jones Cemetery
Located in Mount Pleasant city block 349 at the intersection of State Highway 49 and Old Highway 49 (Choctaw Street)
on land formerly occupied by Spann Trucking Company. All traces of Jones Cemetery have been lost.
Merritt Cemetery
Located on land once owned by J. K. McKinnon in Abstract A-568, the W. B. Taylor Headright Survey.
No deed mentions the cemetery. Lynch Harper located one monument for Hattie Eaton, wife of Horace Eaton,
who died June 5, 1886. It was inscribed “Gone to Rest”.
Mitchell Cemetery
Located about 4 miles West of Mt. Pleasant in the John Thompson Survey.
Riley Mitchell, Red John Mitchell, and other Mitchell family members and other people were buried in this cemetery.
The cemetery is thought to contain approximately 15 to 20 graves.
Page Cemetery
Located about 10 miles northwest of Mt. Pleasant on the north side of a county road leading to a house that a Mr. Kersey once lived in
on land owned by Jessie Harold Cowley. The cemetery is thought ot have 10 or 12 graves in it,
but no markers - only sunken in places to indicate where graves are.
It was named the Page cemetery because members of the Page family were buried here.
Ripley Cemetery
Rutherford Cemetery
A Dr. Rutherford moved to Titus County long before the Civil War and purchased considerable land principally in
the Tomas Sattilhite Survey North of Cookville. Dr. Rutherford established a cemetery about a mile north of the
survey's South boundary line on a road running North and South through this survey. Dr. Rutherford, members
of his family, and many other people from that area were buried in the cemetery. Lynch Harper's “Titus
County Cemeteries” states that the cemetery is located some 7 miles Northeast of Mt. Pleasant along
Interstate 30. “ Some say that the Interstate covers a part of the cemetery's Colored section. Only one
monument was found in the cemetery, and it had been 'bulldozed' to the side. This monument was inscribed:
James Rutherford, Born 12-13-1806. Died 2-2-1884,
Jane Rutherford (Wife of James Rutherford)
Born 12-12-1803, Died 3-30-1862".
The monument was later moved to the Coopers Chapel Cemetery. The land was subsequently owned by
Edmund Tigert and then later by the Hudson family. All traces of the cemetery have been erased and it is lost.
Salmon Cemetery
Located North of the Ripley community near the Southwest corner of the James Salmon Survey A-525 plot 050/100.
Named after the Salmon family, it contained as many as 25 graves.
The wooded land was cleared with a bulldozer, erasing all traces of the cemetery.
Gary Simmons Cemetery
Gary Simmons Cemetery was an African-American cemetery located in Northeast Titus County on land formerly owned by
Gary Simmons in the Dennis Williams Survey A-635 plot 300. No monuments existed and all traces of the cemetery have been lost.
Smith Cemetery (No. 2)
Smith Cemetery (No. 2) was most likely named for Tillman Smith, whose land was of the original headright survey A-521 and most
likely found in plots 050, 052. Smith and others are buried there. There were no monuments and all traces of the cemetery have been lost.
Smith Cemetery (No. 3)
Smith Cemetery (No. 3) is one of several Titus County cemeteries now considered lost. “Texas Cemeteries” reported the
cemetery as having been mentioned in “Titus County, Texas Cemetery Records”, Vol. 2 by the Cypress Genealogical & Historical Society.
Staley Cemetery
Staley Cemetery is set aside in Abstract A-256 the R. M. Hopkins Survey plot 1370 on land once owned by the Staley family.
Lynch Harper's “Titus County Cemeteries” states that a monument once stood in the cemetery, but a tree fell and broke it.
No monuments remain.
Stewart Cemetery
Located about 8 miles Northwest of Mt. Pleasant on land out of the Richard Overton Survey owned by Charles Black.
Lynch Harper's “Cemeteries of Titus County” says it was located about 500 yards west of the West boundry line of a
50 acre tract then owned by G. W. “Pitt” Mebane, and was on the South side of a ditch that ran East and West. It was
one of Titus County's older cemeteries. People that lived in the vicinity said there was once evidence that this was
a large cemetery. Three monuments from the graves of children of C. S. and M. J. Stewart
(William A., Mary E. and Eliza J.) were moved to Edwards Cemetery and no monuments remain.
Tabb Cemetery
Tabb Cemetery is thought to have contained about 20 graves of the Tabb, Davis, and McDonalds families.
The cemetery contained no monuments and the land was cultivated for many years.
Tinnen Cemetery
Tinnen Cemetery, named for David Q, Tinnen who gave the land in approximately the 1860s, was located in the
William Blundell Survey A-12 plot 451. It contained approximately 18 to 20 graves of Rogers, White,
Hogue family members and others, but no monuments.
Tolbert Swint Cemetery
Tolbert Cemetery was on the Benjamin Tolbert Headright survey A-574 and plot 200. The Tolbert and Whitus families reserved one-half
acre where the graveyard is located when they sold the land to Fred Swint on September 28, 1885.
The cemetery contained no monuments and the land was subsequently included in Texas Utilities mine property, was bulldozed, and all traces of it lost.
