Location: At junction of US 180 and FM 1812.
History: Settlement of this area of
Fisher County began in the early 1880s. A small frame building,
erected near this site in 1883-1884, was used as a school and
church. A cemetery was established and was in use by 1884. The
church was named in honor of its first Pastor, J. B. Woods. Among
the first settlers here were Henry Clay Lyon (1815-1889) and his
family. Lyon, a native of Tennessee, was a veteran of the Republic
of Texas Army as well as the Confederate forces of the Civil War.
Although Lyon is buried in the Woods Chapel Cemetery, a granite
marker in his honor was placed in the Roby Cemetery at this site
of the graves of his wife and children. Plans to reinter him next
to his widow during the Texas Centennial of 1936 were never completed.
The earliest marked grave in the Woods Chapel Cemetery is that
of Sarah H. Lawrence (1881-1884), a granddaughter of Henry C.
Lyon. Of the twenty-six marked graves here, thirteen are those
of infants or small children. The graveyard also contains at least
twenty-eight unmarked graves. An important part of Fisher County
history, the cemetery is the site of an annual San Jacinto Day
observance on April 21. (1988)