GRIFFIN CEMETERY

Rusk Co. Cemeteries of TX

This cemetery is one of the 42 lost cemeteries found by Don  and Becky Austin that he gave the permission to duplicate.

Submitted by Gloria B. Mayfiled


Location: About two miles east of Brachfield, north of Murvaul Bayou.

Number of graves: 8 - 10

Number of identifiable graves: 3

Number of non-identifiable marked graves: 1

Earliest known grave: 1888

Latest known grave: 1890

Race count: all white, presumably

Located in open country on a small hill among two or three large oak
trees. Three markers were legible, one found leaning against a tree and
the other two and possibly the remains of a fourth were broken and
scattered. The cement markers have suffered many years of decay, making
it difficult to read them.

The cemetery fronts the old Alex Griffin homeplace, who is believed to
have had two wives buried here as well as these children and probably
other members of the family.

Identifiable graves:

Griffin, Dovey
B Dec 10, 1889
D Jan 3, 1890

Griffin, Mary A.
B Dec 7, 1866
D Dec 20, 1889

Griffin, Maud
B June 21, 1887
D Aug 39, 1888