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Photos by Paula Fields
Sorry, cemetery inscriptions not available to us at this time
Location: 14
miles north of Goldwaithe on SH 16, then 10 miles west on FM 218.
Historical Marker: Although settlement of this area
dates to 1878, this graveyard was not established until the turn
of the 20th century. The earliest documented grave is that of
one-year-old Lee Ella Deen, daughter of W. F. and M. L. Deen,
who died in November 1904. In February 1905, J. L. Chancellor
deeded the surrounding three acres of land to the citizens of
the Democrat and Rock Springs communities for use as a public
burial ground. Among the early graves in the cemetery are those
of a number of infants and children, victims of the influenza
epidemic that raged worldwide in the early 20th century, and veterans
of the Civil War, World War I and World War II. A reflection of
area history, the cemetery remained in use at the turn of the
21st century. (2000)