Goliad Community Cemetery - Leon County, Texas ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Cheryl Burks USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Goliad Community Cemetery (This is a Black Cemetery) From OSR take Highway 75 north a distance of 0.65 miles. This is just about to the Leon County sign on the highway. There is a dirt road to the right. The Williams Family Cemetery is on this corner. Take this dirt road, at about 300 feet a gate (usually locked), at 0.25 miles a cattle guard, a total of 0.65 miles to the entrance of Grace Chapel. The cemetery is to the right across the church property in the woods. BOWMAN, Frank Pvt US Army WWI July 1, 1855 Jan 13, 1958 BOWMAN, John Pvt Co. B. 410 Res Labor Bn QMC WWI Feb 26, 1895 Aug 29, 1949 BURNETT, Francis unmarked HARRIS, Ada unmarked HARRIS, Della unmarked HENDERSON, Mattie unmarked JONES, Johnnie Feb 18, 1876 Oct 27, 1944 KING, Jim unmarked KIZZEE, Perry 1857 Aug 2, 1927 MANNING, Joe Feb __, 1866 Mar __, 1924 SIMPSON, Algie unmarked SIMPSON, George no dates SIMPSON, Sam unmarked VAULTS, Sindy unmarked _____________ Sept 26, 1910 ____ 21, 1988 (top of monument is missing) Sallie (Simpson) Roberson, who was born in this community in 1923, relates that the Gibbs out of Huntsville gave some 2 or 3 acres for the cemetery. She also says that there are 3 or 4 hundred people buried here. In her younger years this was a good size community with a Baptist Church, a Methodist Church, a schoolhouse and the cemetery located side by side. The school is gone. The Baptist Church is gone. The cemetery is all but gone. She says that back in the 1950’s some white boys came over and vandalized the cemetery by busting the gravestones apart with sledgehammers. Some of the stones show signs of this vandalization. The Methodist Church is "Grace AME Church". Sallie said that it was founded in the 1880’s. There is a plaque on the wall of the building that says "GRACE CHAPEL, AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 1905 - 1989 erected 1968". The Church and grounds are very well kept. They hold only one service a year, a homecoming service, to keep the Church alive.