Titus County, Texas Cemetery Search - Phillips-Taylor Cemetery

Phillips-Taylor Cemetery is located in Cookville, Texas in eastern Titus County. Folklore says that A. B. Cook donated the land for the town named for him. Cookville, once thriving with multiple businesses and industries, has an interesting history and the cemetery attests to some of it. Some say that Phillips-Taylor Cemetery was started when some citizens became concerned that expansion of Cookville Cemetery was not the best suited for burial purposes. Burials continued to take place in both cemeteries.

The cemetery is fenced and kept in very good condition. Two unreadable funeral home markers mark grave sites in addition to commercially made monuments.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM THE TITUS COUNTY COURTHOUSE:

Drive 1.0 mile north on Jefferson Street (U.S. Highway 271 Business) to the intersection with U.S. Highway 67 (16th Street). Turn right (east) on U.S. 67 and continue 6.4 miles. Turn right (south) on Cemetery Road**. Phillips-Taylor Cemetery is on the left at the southeast corner of U.S. Highway 67 and Cemetery Road.

** Cemetery Road and Titus County Road 3151 is the same road. Cemetery Road/CR 3151 runs north-south between U.S. Highway 67 and Titus County Road 4045, down the west side of both Phillips-Taylor Cemetery and Cookville Cemetery. A green informational sign on U.S. Highway 67 says "Cemetery Road", as does the street sign at Highway 67 (the north end). The county road sign at the south end of the same road (approx 2 short blocks) marks the road as Titus County Road 3151.

GPS COORDINATES: 33°11.160' N 094°51.422' W

DECORATION DAY: Unknown

MARKED BURIALS INDEXED IN TCS DATABASE: 123 (2008-04-01)

FREE BURIAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS CEMETERY.

SEE "HOW TO REQUEST BURIAL INFORMATION" PAGE FOR DETAILS.

LAST TCS PHYSICAL SURVEY: 2005-08-15

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.