Freestone County, Texas
Cemeteries




old Hackett Family Cemetery 

by Eric Bonner Wood

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Status: Inactive

Background:  
Source - Sonny Sessions said "
  This abandoned site [Hackett Family Graves] located north of Woodland and 
west of the Webb and Dunagan Cemeteries in woods and brush. I first visited 
here more than 50 years ago. The area was not fenced and there at least three 
grave markers scattered around, all the graves had been dug up. I was told 
there was a story that a pot of gold been buried and never located....  
  Recently one of the grave markers was found and brought to me I was not 
familiar with the name Hackett or the family. The grave marker read 
"Margaret wife of Kemper K. Hackett Jan. 21, 1850-March 25, 1877". It is 
possible she died in childbirth which very common.
  In the Volume I Freestone Co. History, I found she was the daughter of 
Peter Leonard Stubbs and Caroline Dunagan Stubbs. I also found that Peter
L. Stubbs lived in Woodland and had a store here at one time.
  In recent years have been told by a neighboring friend that while visiting 
with man from nearby community he was told that this man and his father 
(both now deceased) had dug the graves up. His story was the father had a 
dream about the gold that it buried here. The father even went and consulted 
with clairvoyant (fortune teller) in Corsicana famous in our area
named Annie Buchanan who verified this where it located. He and his father 
a business man drove to the area in the middle of the night and dug the 
graves up with nothing found."

Location - 

Directions - 

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MARKED GRAVES AT SITE:
None


GRAVE MARKERS KNOWN:
Margaret, wife of Kemper K. Hackett, Jan. 21, 1850-March 25, 1877


UNMARKED GRAVES:
Unknown