Harkrider Cemetery

Panola Co  Cemeteries of TX

Surveyed by Don Austin ca 1981

Submitted by Gloria B. Mayfield   Cemeteries of TX

322136   0941318

Directions: From Carthage go northbound on U.S. Hwy 79 North to the blinking light in Deberry. At that intersection turn left on to FM 31 and proceed northbound toward Elysian Fields. At the intersection with Panola County Road 312   turn left on to CR 312. Continue on CR 312 until it merges with CR 3122. The cemetery will be off of CR 3122  just north of the Harrison-Panola county line   about two miles southwest of Elysian Fields in the old Kinlock Community.

OR   From I-20, exit 620, take FM 31 south to Elysian Fields. In Elysian Fields, take West Street west about 2.5 miles, crossing over into Panola County. West St. runs into CR 312. Take that west .4 miles to a road heading north, PR 1334. Cross back into Harrison County. The cemetery will be on the east side of the road, about .6 miles from CR 312.  Abandoned.
 

According to Don Austin in his privately circulated book "42 Lost Cemeteries" Kinlock  now a ghost town was shown on the 1850 map. It was located on the Old Shreveport to Douglas Road  right about where the road crossed the present day Harrison-Panola county line. The cemetery lies just north of the old roadway   in fairly dense woodland. It appears to have been a quite large cemetery because there are graves scatted long distances apart. Austin estimated as many as 40-60 graves here.

Austin noted that in the center of the cemetery is a "good-sized" fenced plot containing twelve graves that were possibly members of the same family. These twelve graves are noted on the list below with an asterisk (*) following their surname. All of the markers within this plot are of the same type   fairly recent looking  low granite blocks that are obviously not the original markers. The fence is a rusty chain-link enclosure and in the foot of the gateway there is an embedded concrete block inscribed "Harkrider – August 1927"