Cornett Cemetery 
Hughes Springs ,  Cass County, Texas
Cemeteries of Texas Coordinator: Dolores I. Bishop

Information provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site
 Location: 
on FM 250, 12 mi. N of Hughes Springs 

Marker : The first burials here were in the 1850s, 
but the oldest legible stone marks the grave of Mary Frances Hampton, 
who died Oct. 4, 1880. Robert Dunlap donated nine acres of land to the
 cemetery and to adjacent Hamell's Chapel Methodist Church. Other donors 
of land included G. T. Cornett and S. E. McCord, Fred and Sallie Hall, and 
Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Trumble. Known by several names during its history, 
the community burial ground was renamed "Cornett" after Cornett Post 
Office was established in 1901. The cemetery contains about 295 marked and 110 unmarked graves.