Huson Cemetery

Photos by Gary Webb

Photos by Elaine Nall Baye and Patricia Nall
  Location: from Farmersville take CR 611 (old McKinney Road) off SH 78, about 9/10 mile west to CR 610, go north on CR 610 about 8/10 mile to CR 814, go east on CR 814 to its end at cemetery

Historical Marker

Allen Daniel and his family came to Texas from Tennessee in 1847. He and his wife Elizabeth were the parents of eight children. They settled in this area in 1850 and Daniel purchased 480 acres of land in May 1851. Less than one year later, on February 25, 1852, he died and was buried on his land. Allen and Elizabeth Daniel's daughter, Tennessee P. Daniel, was married to D.E.  Huson (Mar 29 1809-Oct 24 1877). Tennessee Huson bought the family land from her mother in 1875, and it was during her ownership that the property surrounding her father's grave was given to the community as a public cemetery. It gradually became known as Huson Cemetery. Those interred in this historic graveyard include many pioneers of the area, including the Daniel, Huson, Wilcoxson, 
and Redwine families. John Hendrex and William Piunckney Chapman, who are credited with naming the town of Farmersville, and William Gotcher, who donated land for the town square, are buried here along with members of their 
families. Also interred here are many former slaves and their descendants, including the Nelson, Sneed, Glass, and Bryson families. The cemetery contains hundreds of marked and unmarked graves. (1989)

Both African-Americans and whites are buried together in this cemetery.