Browning Cemetery

Marion Co. Cemeteries of TX

Submitted by Wanda Fillingim


Located off Hwy 49 in Smithland. North on MC3300 (Jones Rd) 1.5 miles near 2199 MC3300 on private property owned by International Paper Co, behind a locked gate, down a rutted road in a wooded area. Land was owned by A J Browning, born 1790 in VA, whose family may be buried inside a fence with graves marked with rocks.

F P Smith (Francis Parker)    born in NC, Smithland postmaster 1854 & who the town was named for 1800 1860

Susan Anna Smith nee Cocke, born in TN, w/o F P Smith, mother of John F, James P & Mary F     1807 1881

Jessie Bell Fitzgerald child of William & Georgia, grandchild of Ambrose      3-21-1880 4-27-1882

Also buried there with no headstone

William Gill Ratley  12-3-1858    5-31-1938

Mary Bell Fitzgerald Ratley w/o William Gill   8-24-1863 one date

Dunn mother & child d 1930

Also several others marked with stones.