Johnson – Glazner Cemetery

Freestone County, Cemeteries of Texas

Submitted by Cathy Canterbury

Cemeteries of Texas Coordinator: Dolores I. Bishop

 Directions: From Hwy 75 at Dew take CR 489 east about 61/2 miles and the cemetery is on the right in the pasture on top of a hill. You cannot see the cemetery from the road but it is across the road from the Plum Creek Headquarters.

 Family legend has it that much of the cemetery was inadvertently excavated when the ranch belonged to Henry Yager and he began selling gravel from the hill. Unknowingly, the dozer operator destroyed grave markers when clearing the land. It was only when the dragline started unearthing human bones that Mr. Yager realized a cemetery existed here. He relinquished several thousand dollars in gravel to leave the rest of the graves undisturbed. It lay forgotten for many years and grew up in trees, briars and brush.      In a981, Catherine Simmons, her husband and three children and a couple of friends went out with the permission of Mr. Dunlap and started cleaning up the cemetery. They cleared all but a ¼ of the cemetery. Bob Glazner put a fence around the cemetery to keep the cows out of it. It is said that there are quite a few people buried in the cemetery but as of today these are the only stones left standing.

 There is a wrought iron fence in the cemetery that is believed to be around the grave of John L. Johnson. There is no headstone or markings to prove this.