Angelina Co., TX - Cemeteries - Strangers Rest/Frost Cemetery *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Debra Coursey-Pitts & son Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** STRANGER'S REST CEMETERY (also known as FROST CEMETERY ) Information cataloged by Debra Coursey-Pitts in December 2002. Location : Traveling north on Timberland Dr.,turn right on Paul Ave., proceed to Lubbock St. going right ,past Hackney School,left on Knight St., cemetery is where Knight St. dead ends into Walter St. **NOTE** All burials occurred between the dates of 1901 and 1947. Names of known burials.... ALLEN,Will JOHNSON,Levi David ALLEN,Mrs.Emma JOHNSON,Mary J. ANDERSON,G.W. JONES,Ed ARRINGTON,Charles KING,Carrie BAILEY,George W. LACY,Maggie BALDWIN,Emmitt LAMB BARNET,Elmore LEWIS,Mrs.Hager BEASLEY,Mattie LONG,Robert Jr. BEASLEY,Eula MATTHEW'S,Lula H. BEEBEE,Jennie MCCARON,Lola BERRY,Wauthenia MOORE,V.H.Haygood BERRY,Susan MOORE,K.C.(inf.) BOND,George MUNGER,Harry E. BROWN,Willie OLD DAD CALDWELL,(inf.boy) OWENS,Jeurol CANCLER,Uncle Jim PALUM,Henry CHANDLER,Mattie PATTON,Elise F. CHASE,Laura PATTON,Claude CONNER,Cecil PATTON.Mollie COPELAND,Walter PEEVEY,Arbelle COPELAND,Alfred PITMAN,Marrie CUNNINGHAM,Sam PLATT,Lela DAVIS,(inf.of Will) POLK,Willie DAVIS,Squire POWELL,Vercy DAVIS,(inf.of Era) PREWITT,Ludie(inf.twin boys) DEWINGS,Mrs.Jessie RIPTOE,Babe ELLIS,Martin RIPTOE,Alfred EWING,McKinley ROBERTS,Baby FIELD,Mary L. ROBERTS,Joe FOSTER,Charlie Lee ROGERS,Dink FRANCIS,Lum (inf.) ROSS,Jimmie Lee FRANK,Uncle SEIGLER,John FRAZIER,Essie SHEPHERD,Willard GARRETT,Eliza SIPPIO,William GARRY,Jon Henry SMITH,Ivey GILLON,Beatrice STARKS,Willie P. GREEN,Eli (inf.) STERN,Rena(inf.) HACKNEY,Rhodia TAUGAMA,Frank HACKNEY,George TAUVER,Milton(inf.) HACKNEY,Lewis THOMAS,William HACKNEY,Joe TURNER,Gus HATTON,Norris VINSON,Thelma HENDERSON,Richard WALKER,Reeves Bell HENDERSON,Lula WATSON,Mrs.D.C. HOLLAND,Margaret WHITE,Lennie HUGHES,Sam WHITE,Tom INGRAM,Kate WILKERSON,Frank JACKSON,Elnora WILKERSON,Dortha L. JAMES,Willis WILLIAMS,Houston JOHNSON,W.S.(inf.son of ) WOODS,Tom(inf.dau.of) JOHNSON,Gertrude L. WRIGHT,Jim JOHNSON,Tom YOUNG,Izola JOHNSON,Fred R. YOUNG,J.J.(inf.) The historical marker on this site reads as folows: R.D.Holland,Sydney Hackney and S.D.Long,trustees of an Angelina Co. African-American cemetery group,aquired one acre here from the Lufkin Land and Timber Co. in 1905.Recorded burials began in 1901. The graveyard was first known as Frost cemetery but according to local tradition began to be called Strangers Rest Cemetery about 1915 because of the large number of drifters buried here.*The last recorded interment of Norris Patton took place in 1946*.The site fell into disrepair but was reclaimed by members of the local commumity and county volunteers in 1991-92. *Norris Patton's name is not mentioned on the memorial stone. JOHNSON,Emeline (inf.)