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This is an abandoned and essentially lost cemetery located about 8 miles Northwest of Mt. Pleasant on lands owned by Charles Black out of the Richard Overton Survey. According to Lynch Harper in his “Cemeteries of Titus County”, it was located about 500 yard west of the WB line of a 50 acre tract owned then by G. W. “Pitt” Mebane, and was on the South side of a ditch running East and West. This was one of the older cemeteries of Titus County. Three monuments that were at the graves of children of C. S. And M. J. Stewart (William A., Mary E. and Eliza J.) have been moved to the Edwards Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant. Eliza J. Stuart died September 7, 1845, one of the earlies deaths in Titus County. People that lived in the vicinity stated that at one time there was evidence of the fact that this was a large cemetery. Charles Black, the current land owner of the land on which the cemetery was formed stated that there is no evidendence remaining of the cemetery and therefore no effort was expended to locate it. When the Civil War started, C. S. Stewart organized a company of volunteers and started from Mt. Pleasant to engage in the war in Missouri. When they were crossing Oklahoma, his company got in a fight with som Indians and Stewart was killed and buried in Oklahoma, and his body was never returned to Texas. The Stewart home was located a few yards West of the present home of Mr. Mebane. |
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