Glade Chapel Cemetery

Bremond

GPS Coords: 31.232347, -96.674586
From Bremond, take Hwy 14 northeast to County Road 273 and turn left (north). Go about 2 miles, cross CR 272, and the cemetery is on the left.

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.

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.
Last First Birth Death Notes/Inscriptions
GIBBS Sarah (Yates) 1834 1924 Sarah Gibbs was born in Pickens, Co., Alabama to Britton Wesley and Elisabeth (Williford) Yates and she died in Falls Co., Texas
GIBBS Elbert L. 1827 Feb 26 1906 Elbert L. Gibbs was born in Pickens Co., Alabama to Maranda Gibbs and he died in Falls Co., Texas. Maranda Gibbs was born in 1796 in North Carolina.
Alabama 40th Infantry Co G Confederate States Army
Picture submitted by Monica Hague
GIBBS Sarah Rachel Yates Jun 01 1848 Feb 15 1924 Sarah Rachel Yates married Elbert L. Gibbs on August 29, 1855 in Winston Co., Mississippi and she came to Texas in the 1890’s
Picture submitted by Monica Hague
PAYNE Everett Nov 1904 Jan 1905 Infant Child of James Kelly and Mary Ann Armstrong Payne
PAYNE Bryan Oct 06 1903 Oct 06 1903 Infant Child of James Kelly and Mary Ann Armstrong Payne
COBB Infant No Date No Date "Meet Me In Heaven"
UNKNOWN Unknown no date no date This tombstone is unreadable
MOORE Isla no date no date This is a very old tombstone marker
ALSTON Andrew Jackson Apr 04 1852 Nov 14 1953 Born in Montgomery Co., Texas
Married Mary "Mamie" Dorcas (Barclay) on June 27, 1883
All info submitted by Ron Johnson
ALSTON Mary "Mamie" Dorcas (Barclay) Feb 16 1865 Apr 09 1941 Daughter of William Alexander and Mary P. (Long) Barclay of Blue Ridge, Falls County, Texas
Married Andrew Jackson Alston on June 27, 1883
All info submitted by Ron Johnson
UNKNOWN Unknown no date no date This tombstone is very old and unreadable
SNIDER Mary E. Apr 22 1845 Sep 13 1926
CRABB Harvey D. Oct 02 1930 Oct 03 1930 Son of John Frieland Opal Inez (Moore) Crabb
John Frieland Crabb's Father was Franklin Smith Crabb, son of John Crabb
Info and Death Certificate submitted by Patti G.
SISSION Andrew Jackson Dec 18 1845 Sep 23 1908 Born in Holmes County, Mississippi. His wife is buried at Dresden Cemetery in Navarro County, Texas
He actually died in 1903, as per the Texas State Death Records.
"Blessed Are The Pure In Heart For They Shall See God"
Info and full name submitted by Kathleen Sisson Boyd, Great Granddaughter of Andrew Jackson Sission