Titus County, Texas Cemetery Search

The Russell Cemetery, located on land owned by Mr. Ira Bicknell in the William Welch survey in rural Southeast Titus County, is one of several abandoned cemeteries. Mr. Bicknell proved to be a valuable source of historical information, a true asset for the county that should be exploited. George Fletcher Russell, a relative of Mrs. Bicknell, started the cemetery before the Civil War. Evidence of graves covering a considerable area indicates that it is a large cemetery. Although the cemetery lies in woods on the Bicknell property, there is little underbrush and it is easily accessible. There are only two monuments for two brothers named Short, who Mr. Bicknell said came home from the Civil War and eventually killed each other over the affections of a local lady. Mr. Bicknell also related the story of two other monuments that a man removed and transported to the nearby Springhill Southeast Cemetery, but never placed. They finally disappeared and no one knows what happened to them. The broken monument for Mary E. Pitt described in the Springhill Southeast Cemetery description is thought to be one of them.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM THE TITUS COUNTY COURTHOUSE:

Travel 0.3 mile South on Madison Street to Ferguson Road.

Turn left (east) on Ferguson Road and continue 3.8 miles (pass through the traffic light at the intersection of South Jefferson Street and Ferguson Road where Ferguson Road becomes Highway 49) to Highway 49's intersection with FM 1735 (Chapel Hill Road).

Turn right (South) onto FM 1735 (Chapel Hill Road) and proceed 8.4 miles to the intersection with Texas Highway 11.

Turn right onto Texas 11 and proceed for 0.1 mile. You should see the entrance to the land owner's estate on the left.

The home lies about 100 yards south of Texas 11. The cemetery lies 0.5 mile behind the house.

View # 2 - Entrance gate and west end of Adams Chapel Cemetery viewed from east side

GPS COORDINATES: 33°01.631' N 094°51.285' W

DECORATION DAY: None

MARKED BURIALS INDEXED IN TCS DATABASE: 4 (2008-04-01)

FREE BURIAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS CEMETERY.

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

LAST TCS PHYSICAL SURVEY: 2006-12-17

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.

A long drive leads to the Bicknell residence. To reach the Russell Cemetery, turn left on a dirt road with a gap gate just before the cattle guard at the residence.

Drive to the dead-end of the ranch road approximately 1/2 mile behind the house and barn.

Not visible from the road, the cemetery sits in a grove of trees near a ravine.

The two markers are not fenced and sit near the base of trees near the ravine's edge.