CASTLE CEMETERY, Smith County, TX ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** Made available to the USGenWeb Archives by the East Texas Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711 CEMETERY RECORDS OF SMITH COUNTY TEXAS, Volume II, Northwest Quarter, p. 184. Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net - 16 Jun 2000 On land bought by Isaac Castle in 1870. (Located near Mt. Sylvan, TX - difficult to find - has few if any markers left. It is believed there were 10 or 12 graves, including several Negroes, according to the records of J. M. Castle. The following information on persons buried there was furnished by Nathan H. Ranck, a descendant of the Castle family.) CASTLE, Isaac - b. 25 Nov 1811 in Montgomery (now Stanley) Co., N.C. d. 17 Aug 1873 at Mt. Sylvan, TX CASTLE, Cherry Watson (wife of Isaac) - b. 1819 or 1820 death date unknown CASTLE, John Martin - b. 7 Sep 1842 in Choctaw (now Webster) Co., Miss. d. 28 Jan 1892 at Mt. Sylvan, TX CASTLE, Mary Luvenia Shackelford (1st wife of John Martin Castle) b. 6 Nov 1845 in Tippah Co., Miss. d. 17 Dec 1879 at Mt. Sylvan, TX REESE, Carrie Castle - dau. of John Martin Castle b. 1873 - d. date unknown