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List of cemeteries
preserved in Navarro County as of October 1st, 2009
1) Spring Hill -set aside in 1936 during the Texas Centennial 2) New Pevehouse-- also known as Cross Roads 3) Old Pevehouse 4) McCord/ Hightower 5) Whitehead/ Meazell 6) John Stovall 7) Caleb & Nancy Green 8) Dr. Anderson 9) Shelton Family 10) Weathersbee 11) Mooney 12) William Love 13) Garner Family 14) Davidson 15) Sloan 16) Brooks Family 17) Dunn/ Johnston 18) Long Prairie, aka. Alligator, aka, Round Prairie 19) Bledsoe 20) Buggy Axle 21) Mexican Migrant Worker 22) Elijah Anderson 23) State Home - this one is still pending because the cemetery is not where the fence and the stone was was placed around 1970 24) Candalerio Garcia 25) Jefferson Owen 26) James Wilson 27) William Bowen 28) Dixon 29) James & Sarah Green 30) Mary Catherine Martin 31) Magness # 1 32) Magness # 2 33) Jones/ Crab Creek, Antioch (white) 34) Marvin's Chapel 35) Sweatman/ Blackman 36) Jones/ Gunn 37) Wesley's Chapel 38) Carroll Family 39) Bright/ Boyd 40) Smith's Chapel 41) Eden/ Eden Grove 42) French 43) Hagle 44) Miller family 45) Curry 46) Pin Oak 47) Ethan Melton 48) Campbell- Elrod 49) Speed Family 50) Black Hills 51) Gaines- Green 52) Colbert Family 53) Ward 54) Pleasant Hall 55) Hamilton/ Bragg 56) Crabtree 57) Woods 58) Powers 59) Akers/ Brown 60) Providence Missionary Baptist 61) Haynie/ Dunn 62) Pelham 63) Pruitt, aka, Blanford/ Gowen/ Majors 64) Union Hill 65) Barnett/ Burnett aka. unknown across from Union Hill 66) Tolliver 67) Britton Dawson 68) Zions Rest, aka Duncan 69) Birdston Valley 70) Hannon 71) Modrall 72) Hebrew
We also recorded Zollicoffer which is in Hill County near Itasca. The Zollicoffer family had a big plantation with a number of slaves. Some of those slaves when freed moved into Navarro County. Several are buried in Union Hill, others in Samaria which still have the last name of Zollicoffer.
Further research needed
Petty Family Cemetery ( in Corsicana) Cosgrove ( Retreat) David White aka White or Pisgah Ridge Cemetery ( Pisgah) Bird/ Hancock/ Dunn-- Eureka area --land donated by Bird Most call this one Hancock/ or Dunn/ Hancock, Dunn owned the land next door. This cemetery is located on land which used to belong to Mrs. Vara Chandler Boyd Family- N. of Blooming Grove on F. M. 55. Does not qualify as historic because it is less than 50 years old Williams Family- in front yard of house near Pelican Isle, stones removed, is over 50 years of age Williams--------- South of Frost about a half mile past New Pevehouse on north side of same county road-- fairly modern small cemetery, is eroding due to water runoff Carroll Slave--- WSW of Carrolll Family in another pasture no tombstones, only a few native rocks marking some of the graves Burleson-- NE of Birston Cemetery, in good condition, fenced and maintained Burleson Slave--- in same pasture as Burleson but farther north, partially bulldozed back in the 1950s or 1960s. Recorded by SMU during the Richland/ Chambers Lake Project Richey Family--- 7 or 8 graves. Landowner destroyed the tombstones, built a barn on top of the graves Monroe Family----Oak Valley Brooks ( African American) located near Brushie Arbor North of Black Hills Haynes- Frost --tombstones moved but not the graves building built on the grave site |
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