Freestone County, Texas
Cemeteries


Whitt Cemetery  
(a.k.a. Butler Cemetery)

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Status: Abandoned.

Background:  Founded 1869.  H. Whitt was a Confederate army veteran.

Location:  Near Butler

Directions: 16.7 miles E of Fairfield off Hwy 84 on the south side of Pleasant
  Hill Children's Home property.  On the same road as Mayes and Lone Star 
  cemeteries.

Oldest Marked Grave:  1869  John T. Whitt

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Confederate Veterans known buried there:

Bryant, Joe
Chambers, Hal
Edwards, W. L.
Ivy, Jim   CSA d Feb 5, 1891
Ivy, Joe Sr.
Mobley, J. R.
Mays, T. G.
Franklin, Nat
Streety, Beeler
Whitt, Tom

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Green, Sam              (no date)
Green, Sam's small son  (no date)

Greene, Tennie          01/08/1856-11/28/187?   Wife of G. W. Greene

Hammett, Violet         11/17/1869-02/05/1874  d/o J.M. & M.V. Hammett 
  "age 4 yrs, 2 mo, 18 days"

Whitt, Earl             04/31/1879-10/05/1899  
Whitt, [Colonel] Thomas Penn      1818-1889  [CSA]
Whitt, Edward V.        1866-1891
Whitt, Tom              (no date)
Whitt, Carroll C.       1864-late April or early May 1907 [he was shot by Hiram Sterling 
 over a dog fight. Sterling shot Whitt with double barrel shotgun while he was 
 returning home. Obit in Fairfield Recorder - May 3, 1907 issue. Obit refers to
 this as the Butler Cemetery.]
Whitt, John T.          1849-1869
Whitt, Mary Ann         (no date)
Whitt, Maggie Mae       (no date)
Whitt, Mae Martin       (no date)

An unknown farm hand    (no date)