Sneed Cemetery is located in southeastern Titus on a tract of land once owned by Clarence Spann in the south part of the George Clapham Survey. H. T. Rhea and wife, Sarah, gave a deed dated February 25, 1877 to trustees of the Christian Church for the purpose of building a Christian meeting house and for church and school purposes. The land was evidently used for burial purposes also. History records that the Center Grove Church of Christ was established there, but church membership split around that time. One faction went East and established the present Center Grove Church. The other faction went west and established the Center Point Church. The cemetery was abandoned after the split. Members of the Sneed, Gaggers, Frizzell, and other families are possibly buried in the cemetery.
There is currently only one monument in the cemetery, atop a hill in open pasture and unprotected at the grave of two children of T. R & S. F. Gaggers. Tree limbs fall on the monument, but underbrush seems to be controlled. Two native stones were also found in the cemetery.
DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM THE TITUS COUNTY COURTHOUSE:
Travel 0.3 miles south on Madison Street to Ferguson Road (US 271). Turn left (east) on Ferguson Road (which becomes Texas Highway 49) and travel 5.5 miles on Highway 49 to the intersection of Texas FM 1000. Turn left onto FM 1000 and continue for 0.9 mile to the intersection (from the left) with County Road 4260. Turn left onto County Road 4260 and proceed 0.3 mile. The cemetery lies about 150 yards on the right in a pasture.
Sneed Cemetery sits under a large oak tree at the top of a hill
in an open pasture
GPS COORDINATES: 33°07.937' N 094°52.274' W
DECORATION DAY: None
MARKED BURIALS INDEXED IN TCS DATABASE: 2 (2008-04-01)
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(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: 2006-12-17
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.
Only one marker remains in the cemetery, which probably contains several more burials
