Douglassville Cemetery (partial)
Douglassville, Cass County, Cemeteries of TX

Photos & partial submitted by Gena Forsyth
Cemeteries of Texas Coordinator: Dolores I. Bishop

Historical Marker Information provided by the State of Texas Atlas Site

Williamson Petty (1820-61), Sulphur River ferryman, donated
land for this cemetery from a claim which he settled in 1850. 
Col. John C. Douglass (1818-63), from Georgia, bought in 1855 
all of the Petty claim not previously reserved for school and church.
The cemetery took its name from his town of Douglassville.
The earliest legible stone (1859) marks the grave site of Mrs. 
Henrietta Cook and her infant twins. Additional land was acquired
in 1928 and 1939. The cemetery has about 400 graves and a governing association.