WILSON-CURTIS CEMETERY - Smith County, TX 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 IV, Southeast Quarter, p. 252. Submitted 20 Feb 2000 by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net. ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** (Located on FM Road #850, about 4 miles west of Overton on the Wilson Ranch. Marked by a group of cedar trees, and originally enclosed with an iron fence.) WILSON, Tom Henry - 18 July 1881 - 28 Oct 1881 WILSON, Ella Mae - 18 Sept 1882 - 20 June 1898 WILSON, Horace - (no dates known - killed in a boiler explosion at a mill) *WILSON, Robert M. - (no dates known) **CURTIS, J. L. - 30 Jan 1875 - 25 Mar 1909 *Robert Wilson obtained a patent from the State of Texas for 320 acres in 1854. His grandchildren Horace & Ella Mae are buried here. There were an estimated 15 graves here, but in the late 1970s the cemetery was vandalized. Outside the fence are many unmarked slave graves. **It is said Mr. Curtis was shot & killed by a Negro named Walter Scott, who worked for him. Scott was then brought to Tyler, hung and burned on the Court House Square. (Information from Walker Wilson.)