On Sessions Street (Farm to Market Road 80) at County Highway 1080, on the left when traveling south on Sessions Street.
This cemetery is the largest of three slave graveyards which local tradition indicates were established in the area in the early 1850s. It was named for delegate to Texas' Constitutional Convention of 1875 and prominent local citizen Gustavus . . . — — Map (db m167981) HM
On County Highway 950 at Farm to Market Road 80, on the left when traveling east on County Highway 950.
Matthews and Robert Shanks of Alabama settled here with their families in 1859. A small farming community developed, and in 1870 a school was built on a one-acre site donated by R. C. Murray. Land beside the schoolyard became a public burial . . . — — Map (db m171480) HM
On Shiloh Street (County Highway 1449) at County Highway 1070, on the left when traveling north on Shiloh Street.
Area slaves used a brush arbor for informal church services held by White Minister Jeremiah Seely in the early 1850s. The congregation formally organized as Freedmen in 1866; Boney Moffett was elected first elder. Shiloh School, which was inspired . . . — — Map (db m167980) HM
On County Highway 1449 at County Highway 1060, on the left when traveling north on County Highway 1449.
Established in 1863 Enrollment more than 300 students Colonel L.R. Wortham donated Ten acres of land for use as a Campus, Church and Cemetery Charter trustees Col. L.R. Wortham, Thomas Lamb Dr. Rueben Anderson, Oliver Carter John I. Winn, D.L. . . . — — Map (db m167950) HM
On County Highway 1449 at County Highway 1060, on the left when traveling north on County Highway 1449.
In a community founded 1848 by pioneers mostly from Alabama, this cemetery was opened with burial of Capt. John L. Wortham (1841-62), who died in Galveston while in Confederate Army in the Civil War. Col. Luther R. ("Dick") Wortham (1820-74), a . . . — — Map (db m167952) HM
Buried closeby are two kinsmen who share notable roles in the history of the South : John Bonum Lennard and his son-in-law, Minyard Hickerson Harriss. John Lennard was a member of the convention that withdrew Alabama from the Union in 1861. . . . — — Map (db m167973) HM
