Titus County, Texas Cemetery Search - Riddle Cemetery No. 1

Riddle Cemetery (No. 1) is one of two Titus County cemeteries named Riddle after the family that started it as a family cemetery. It is located in northwest Mt. Pleasant in dense woods about 200 yards north of what is commonly referred to as the Old Paris Road. Supposedly the cemetery contains are five graves, but only three monuments remain (if there were ever more). It was once fenced but no the old barbed wire fence has deterioated and the cemetery is no longer fenced. The environment is wreaking havoc with the monuments. One is toppled, broken, and slowly being buried. Surrounding vegetation is rapidly overtaking the area.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM THE TITUS COUNTY COURTHOUSE:

Travel 0.3 mile west on West First Street to the intersection of Edwards Avenue.

Turn right (north) on Edwards Avenue and proceed for 1.6 miles across US 67 and under Interstate 30 to a fork in the Road where Titus County Road 1200 intersects North Edwards Avenue.

Take the right fork onto Titus County Road 1200 (Old Paris Road) and continue 1.7 miles.

The cemetery lies in dense woods about 200 yards to the right (north) of the Old Paris Road.

GPS COORDINATES: 33°11.767' N 095°00.207' W

DECORATION DAY: None

MARKED BURIALS INDEXED IN TCS DATABASE: 5 (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: 2007-01-08

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.