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Many of our cemeteries are on private land. Please, be considerate of land owners property and ask for permission to enter before visiting. If you are visiting a remote and overgrown cemetery be aware and cautious of snakes.

If you are aware of cemetery vandalism or desecration, contact the Trinity County Sheriff or local police department.

Protection of historic cemeteries is, however, a shared responsibility. Notification must be made in order to protect these irreplaceable cultural resources. Cemetery desecration is a continuing problem in Texas and throughout the United States. Destruction occurs in many ways, including the illegal removal of human remains, damage from roaming livestock, encroaching development and construction, vandalism, and theft of grave goods and funerary objects.

Access Section 711.041 of the Health and Safety Code states that any person who wishes to visit a cemetery that has no public ingress or egress shall have the rights for visitation during reasonable hours and for purposes associated with cemetery visits. The owner of the lands surrounding the cemetery may designate the routes for reasonable access. Section 711.0521 further states that interference with ingress and egress is a Class C misdemeanor. Health and Safety Code section 711.012(b) provides the Texas Funeral Service Commission the authority to write rules to support section 711.041 of the Health and Safety Code. These rules present a course of action that may be undertaken in cases where access to a cemetery is refused. See Title 22, Part 10, Rule §205.2 of the Texas Administrative Code. The court decision in the case of Davis v. May, 135 S.W.3d 747 (Tex.App.–San Antonio 2003, pet. denied), affirmed the trial court’s judgment granting descendants the right of ingress and egress to a private family cemetery surrounded by a single landowner.

Abandonment The fact that the remains of the dead buried in a cemetery have not been removed and that tombstones mark the places of burial is sufficient to show that the cemetery has not been abandoned. Michels v. Crouch, 122 S.W.2d 211 (Tex. Civ. App.– Eastland 1938, no writ). In Markgraf v. Salem Cemetery Assn., 540 S.W2d 524 (Tex. Civ. App.–San Antonio 1976, no writ), the court decided that land outside a cemetery fence was not abandoned because several graves were still evident.

ENDANGERED cemeteries are those which do not have a known cemetery association affiliation. These cemeteries are located on private property and may or may not be maintained by property owner.

Contact: Susanne Waller, tchcmuseum@windstream.net, regarding historical cemetery designations and markers.
Page updated: Sept 3, 2024/skw

Cemeteries by Name and/or Name Changes

ANDERSON-ELLIS CEMETERY Updated February 25, 2010

Beasley Cemetery see PERRY-BEASLEY CEMETERY, Apple Springs

Bell, "Rich" Plot-REINTERED AT THE HUNTSVILLE CEMETERY, WALKER cO.

Bennett Cemetery Historic Texas Cemetery This cemetery is extremely large. Some computers may experience slow download times.

Updated: Sept 24, 2019

Bennett Grave-ENDANGERED

Benton Cemetery-Endangered

Blackshear Cemetery-Endangered-Historic Texas Cemetery

Boggy Slough Burial Plot-ENDANGERED Updated May 3, 2005

Bohemian Cemetery-ENDANGERED A found cemetery! Updated May 3, 2005