| Marker Number |
11337 |
| Atlas Number |
5459011337 |
| Marker Title |
Pleasant Grove Cemetery |
| Index Entry |
Pleasant Grove Cemetery |
| Address |
FM 1975 |
| City |
Bettie |
| County |
Upshur |
| UTM Zone |
15 |
| UTM Easting |
324783 |
| UTM Northing |
3641650 |
| Subject Codes |
cemetery; communities |
| Marker Year |
1994 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Lafayette community, FM 1975, S side, 4.5 mi. NE of FM 593 |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
Many of the pioneer families who settled in this area and established the Lafayette community in the 1850s immigrated from the southern United States. The 1860 burial of one-year-old Thomas J. Harrison, son of Georgia immigrants Abram and Harriet Harrison, is the first recorded in the cemetery. Land for church and cemetery purposes was set aside by J. M. Brison in 1870. Iron ore, mined commercially here in the 1890s, was used to mark several grave sites of the area's earliest settlers. The cemetery is maintained by an association organized in 1973. (1994) |
