Mapps Cemetery, Rusk Co, Texas *********************************************************** Submitted by: Carolyn Green < > Date: 15 Apr 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** This cemetery is located about 11 miles out on Hwy 43. Turn left on CR 2136. Go 1/10 of a mile to a fork and take the right fork (which is still 2136). Just a few yards down the road on your left is the cemetery. Mapps cemetery has probably more than 100 graves but only about 33 of them are marked. There are many sink holes, rocks and funeral home markers on the graves but most are not identified. A lady down the road from the cemetery told me this was Mapps cemetery. The earliest burial is Mariah Menefee (1899). Carolyn Green, 4/15/2007 Name Birth Dt Death Dt Comments Peterson, Weber 04/14/1919 12/22/1980 CPL US ARMY, WWII Peterson, Ervay L. 1918 1982 TEC5 US ARMY, WWII Peterson, L.A. 01/07/1925 12/26/1986 PVT US NAVY, WWII Smith, Verna Mapps 1916 1974 Southern FHM Peterson, Calup 01/01/1895 08/25/1949 s/w Willie Peterson, Willie 06/20/1917 08/16/1965 s/w Calup Finley, Dora no date 11/12/1946 Age 70, FHM Peterson, Lois 03/04/1918 06/06/1980 PFC US ARMY, WWII Peterson, Annie Lois 11/06/1923 07/03/1994 Finley, Hosea 02/12/1900 09/27/1982 Finley, Johnny Ray 1959 2007 Jenkins Garmon FHM Finley, A. B. 12/18/1907 01/22/1994 s/w Mamye Finley Leadon Leadon, Mamye Finley 01/22/1905 02/17/1992 s/w A.B. Finley Finley, Adolphus, Sr. 01/17/1903 02/01/1978 Finley, Ida V. 1876 1940 Mapps, Elzy 12/10/1881 12/09/1969 Harrell, Mrs. Henry Mapps 05/22/1913 10/31/1983 FHM Finley, Louis no dates no dates "Our Father" Mapps, Glen 01/09/1926 11/25/2005 US ARMY, WWII Finley, ??? (broken stone) no date 02/18/1900 ? of D & J. Finley, 27 years Mapps, Leatha 1871 1956 Bigham Mortuary marker Mapps, Lewis 1879 02/23/1927 Mapps, Callie 1882? D/o Charles Mapps Menefee, Mariah 1851 1899 Mapps, Emmett 02/09/1894 05/23/1950 TX, PVT 16 CO 165 DEPOT BRIG., WWI Menefee, Dan 07/28/1877 07/28/1928 Menefee, Desrea Coleman 03/31/1918 03/31/1935 marker below this marker that says, "Baby Sis" Menefee, Leroy 1909 1942 Windom, Ollie M. 1903 1986 Menefee, Martha 05/10/1879 02/15/1953 Menefee, Betty Jane 03/25/1935 05/01/1961 Menefee, Luther 1915 1982 Menefee, Dan, Jr. 1921 1983 Menefee, Caady 04/25/1904 03/24/1971 s/w Buster (marker hrd to rd) Menefee, Buster 04/25/1904 03/24/1971 s/w Caady (marker hrd to rd) Hughes, Cassandra 10/08/1954 12/29/2000 Menefee, William 11/14/1901 12/23/1997 Menefee, Nadie 09/02/1902 03/13/1981 Anders, Clifton 09/19/1934 09/30/1996