BLACK CEMETERY 

Foard County, Cemeteries of Texas

COMPILED BY  -  FAYE STATSER
RESERCHED BY  -  RUTH GOODWIN, ROXIE HOUGH, LETA JO HAYNIE,  FAYE STATSER
    TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE JIM RICH
1/24/2006
  The first person buried in the cemetery at Black was a Chapman baby who died in 1889. The family was
  traveling through the country, some say in a wagon train. The child became ill, and they camped there for
 a few days. When the child died, the weather was so severe that J.H. Olds and John Nichols, father of
 Walter, Claude, and Grover, made a coffin from a plank from the Nichol's barn. All the graves are marked with
native stone.
 The Black Cemetery no longer exists. A tank spillway now covers that area