Freestone County, Texas
Cemeteries


Gorman Cemetery  (a.k.a. Sam Gorman Cemetery)

African Americian Cemetery  

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Status: Inactive

Background: Gorman Cemetery began as a slave cemetery.  In the olden times, the 
  members of the Shiloh Baptist Church use to bury their dead in the Sam Gorman 
  Cemetery.  However, often bad weather and muddy roads delayed burials since
  the cemetery was a distance from the church and residents.  Later the
  Shiloh Baptist Church voted about 1940's to move start using a newly 
  donated parcel of land for the cemetery and abandon the older Gorman 
  Cemetery.  Some of the old stones were moved from Gorman Cemetery to 
  the Shiloh Cemetery.

Directions: Go east from Fairfield down Highway 84.  Past Red Lake, turn right
onto FM 489.  Located on County Road that goes west from FM 489, at end of
Burleson Lake Dam.

Layout:  Cemetery is in very poor condition with practically no upkeep.  Covers
about 3 acres.  

Number of Graves:  Only 7-8 graves found.  Many were moved to Shiloh.

Oldest Marked Grave: 17 Nov 1918  J. F. Tippen

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Davis, Ernest               ?-02/17/1932 TX Pvt Res Labor, QMC WWI

Eddings, Ester     04/02/1902-04/14/1925  w/o Roscoe

Harris, May        01/22/1872-09/06/1942
Harris, Peter               ?-09/17/1943

Malone, Willie     02/19/1890-09/08/1926
Manning, Fanny           1839-09/11/1898  age 59

Tippin, Mr. J. F.  04/05/1882-11/17/1918

Wade, Adam         06/10/1852-11/12/1921