Rusk Co. Cemeteries of TX
This cemetery is one of the 42 lost cemeteries found by Becky and Don Austin
Location: About six miles northeast of Mt. Enterprise, west of the Rusk-Panola county line
Number of graves: 40-50
Number of identifiable graves: 9
Number of non-identifiable marked graves: 20-25
Earliest known grave: 1881
Latest known grave: 1915
Age percentage range: 55% adults, 45% infants and/or children
Race count: all black
Located in a clearing on the side of a large, gently sloping hill, next
to an old logging road. The clearing is quite large, suggesting a
larger-than-average cemetery. Only nine graves were identifiable and at
least twice as many more were unidentifiable and marked in various
fashins such as native iron ire, petrified wood or broken remains of
tombstones. Two graves in particular were each marked by a small
cast-iron marker resembling a gravestone, but possessing no
identification.
This is said to be the forerunner of the Hall Cemetery which is about
one mile south of this location.
Identifiable graves:
Bell, John
B Feb 12, 1818
D Sept 21, 1885
Bell, Robert
B Dec 1, 1869
D Oct 12, 1888
Bell, Ophieler
B Aug 28, 1886
D March 30, 1887
Dinsmore, Floyd F. - son of J.C. and S.C. Dinsmore
B Sept 27, 1894
D Dec 2, 1901
Gibson, Harett
B 1879
D Aug 1, 1886
Johnson, Martha - wife of Gilbert Johnson
B Feb 15, 1825
D July 25, 1815
McAllister, Rev. J.H.
B Oct 12, 1853
D Oct 24, 1896
McAllister, Hough B.
B Feb 7, 1881
D Oct 12, 1881
Taylor, Ann
B 1860
D March 31, 1890