Long prior to the Civil War, A Dr. Rutherford moved into Titus County and purchased a considerable quantity of land North of Cookville, and principally in the Tomas Sattilhite Survey.This land was later owned by Edmund Tigert and then by the Hudson family.Dr. Rutherford established a cemetery on a road running North and South through this Survey at a point about a mile North of the SB line of the survey. Dr. Rutherford, other members of his family, and many other people in that area were buried in this cemetery, but all traces of this cemetery have been erased and it is lost.

Harper writes in his “Titus County Cemeteries” that the cemetery is located some 7 miles Northeast of Mt. Pleasant, and is along Interstate 30. “In fact some say the Highway covers a part of the Cemetery of the Colored section to it. There is only one monument found in the Cemetery, and it had be ‘bulldozed’ off to the side of it. This monument is for:
            James Rutherford, Born 12-13-1806. Died 2-2-1884,
            Jane Rutherford (Wife of James Rutherford), Born 12-12-1803, Died 3-30-1862".
The monument has since been moved to the Coopers Chapel Cemetery.