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The
Everheart ~ Canaan Cemetery is located between Whitewright, Texas and
Bells, Texas off of Hwy 69. Turn west onto Penny Ln. Drive
approximately 1 mile. Although commonly known as the Everheart
Cemetery, it is also known as the Everheart~Canaan Cemetery due to it's
location in the old Canaan Community area.
BURIALS
SLAVE BURIALS
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Emanuel and Rachel Montgomery Everheart
arrived here in 1848 with their son, William, and members of her
family. By 1850, the Everhearts owned 3,346 acres, including this land.
Family history holds that the oldest burials here (in the northwest
corner) date prior to 1853 and are those of the Everhearts' slaves.
Pilot Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church, organized at Kentuckytown,
moved to Everheart land a mile east of this site and became known as
the Canaan Church. Members utilized this cemetery and shared their
sanctuary with a Methodist Episcopal congregation that moved from
Pitman's Chapel. The oldest marked grave, from June 24, 1875, is that
of W.H. Rumsower, one of several Confederate soldiers buried here.
Other burials include William C. Everheart, the Grayson County Sheriff
from 1876 to 1880 and later a Deputy United States Marshal. Many of the
pioneers of the Canaan community are buried in family plots here. Nell
Arnoldi Everheart cared for the cemetery until her death in 1973, and
the Everheart Cemetery Association later formed.
Historic Texas
Cemetery - 2004 |
 
Cemetery
Index
Susan Hawkins
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