GLADE CHAPEL CEMETERY

Glade Chapel Cemetery
Submitted by Monica Hague

Driving Directions 

7 West to Kosse, take 14N to Bremond

Or coming from Bremond 14S to County Road 272 from turn, only one way

Go down about 2 miles and there sits the old Glade Chapel Cemetery

Inventory of Glade Chapel Cemetery was done about 1975 by Leonard Bryan Payne, who was born right by Glade Chapel Cemetery

The next inventory was taken by Maxine Gibbs Bettis and her Father, James Gibbs about 25 years ago

There are 29 other broken markers in the fenced area

As you can see, there are some VERY old markers and graves here and MANY, MANY missing ones

Glade Chapel Cemetery is in bad need of some TLC 

Info added as submitted

All info and pictures submitted by Maxine Gibbs Bettis and Monica R. Hague unless otherwise noted

     According to Maxine Gibbs Bettis, per her father James Gibbs, this cemetery had at one time about 200 graves.  When she and her father took this inventory, over 20 years ago, many of the original markers were broken and thrown into a ditch.  Sometime in the mid-1970's some descendants put up a fence around the remaining markers, about 17. 

     The cemetery is by the Old Property of Elbert and Sarah Rachel Yates Gibbs. They came to Texas originally from Pickens County, Alabama.  Elbert was a Confederate Soldier, 40th Al Inf. Co A.  They moved after the war to Winston County, Mississippi, then to Falls County, Texas about 1888.  Sarah's sister, Mary Snider, also came with them. 

     Elbert and Sarah's children all lived around them in the old Glade Chapel Community: Rhoda Jane Simmons Gibbs (daughter-in-law).  She owned a cafe with Bert Griffen off 7 East by Kosse in the early 1900's. Eugenia Lois Griffen Bridge, Lena Payne Davidson, Henry Martin Davidson, and My Great-Great Grandfather, their oldest son, George Thomas Gibbs, who came to Texas with his parents and 4 little girls, his wife, Martha having died young in Mississippi.  Father of Vera Mae Gibbs Barnett, wife of Levi Jackson Barnett.

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