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Moseley Cemetery


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Thanks to Gayla Hart & Sharon Pierce for these pictures.

This cemetery is located North of Gladewater off Texas St. on a Chevron lease.  We had to hike in off the road about 50 yards, through poison oak. This is on private property and the neighbor isn?t very nice, so we wouldn?t suggest trying to locate it.

All of the information known is listed here. The graves are in a 10 x 40 plot with a cement footing all around it. Even with all the oilfied equipment around, it is still a lovely setting, lots of trees, and someone has planted Irises all around the border. This cemetery was used for burials prior to 1848, covering about 4 acres of ground. Abandoned now, few graves (no headstones) can be located, due to time, climate and vandalism.  Several of the slaves of Mason Moseley are believed to be buried in or near the cemetery grounds.The first metal sign was erected in 1978 in an effort to identify it. Work was done by the four children of Minnie M Clements Phillips, who is the granddaughter of William W and Mary Johnson Stone Walters.

THERE ARE NO HEADSTONES.  All the information comes from a metal sign with the names TIG welded on it.....and from Mr Eddie Phillips, who originally researched this cemetery. He worked diligently contacting descendents to find out who was actually buried here, through bible records, family plots, and memory. Mr Phillips gave permission for us to use his information also.

History:
From about 1850 until 1871, a post office, which served the Point Pleasant community, operated near this site. The area was known as Gilead under the first postmaster, L. B. Camp, who earlier had established a ferry crossing the Sabine River (2 mi. W). when the name Point Pleasant was
adopted in 1852, J. K.Armstrong (d. 1860) was named postmaster. Other postmasters who served Point Pleasant were William W. Walters (d. 1885), who operated the stage stop where the post office was located, Claiborn Halbert, and Joshua W. Monk. Elisha A. Mackey was Point Pleasant's last official postmaster. During its 21 years of existence the Point Pleasant Post Office served approximately 48 families including those of Jarret Dean, James Hendrick, Mason Moseley, Augustus Moseley, A. H. Abney, A. C. Williams, Jacob M. Lacy, A. G. Rogers, and A. T. Wright. The Point Pleasant School (called Possom Trot and still operating in 1908 with Trustees R. A. Hendrix, E. W. Clements, and Mr. Phillips) and Moseley Cemetery also served these pioneers. When the railroad came through in 1873, the new towns of Gladewater and Longview drew residents away from the Point Pleasant area. Clarksville City, created by the 1931 East Texas oil boom, later developed at the site of the Point Pleasant community. Incise on back: In memory of our mother Minnie Clements Phillips (1892-1973) --Texas Atlas

Anyone with information on these families, please contact Etta and Elaine or Eddie Phillips (Box 564, Elm Mott, Tx 76604).
 




Walters, William W              S/o Abraham and Judith Thomas Walters; b. Halifax Co., Va; (Note: Mary T Johnson Stone Walters, 1835 - 1906, second wife of  William W Walters, is buried at Rosedale Cem., Gladewater, Tx (Gregg Co), next to her daughter Sarah Ann "Sallie" Clements.)

Walters, Marietta Swift              first W/o William M Walters
b. 1813 Va.          d. 1865

Walters, Phillip T
b. 1839 Henry Co, Tn            d. 1892

Walters, John
b. 1835 Henry Co, Tn           d. ?

Walters, Arthur
b. 1844 Henry Co, Tn            d. bef 1860

Walters, Robert
b. 1859 Upshur (Gregg) Co, Tx             d. 1880

Walters, Alice
b. 1851 Upshur (Gregg) Co, Tx         d. 1889

Walters, Samuel Riley
b. 1859 Upshur (Gregg) Co, Tx         d. ?

Moseley, Mason                 S/o Robert D & Margaret Vann Moseley; (Note:  Mary Ann Slater Moseley, wife of Mason Moseley is buried in Covington Cem., Falls Co., Tx)
b. 1805 Edgefield Dist, SC           d. abt 1870

Moseley, Levinia Mildred Shepperd             D/o of Wm & Elvira Anderson Shepperd.  First W/o Mason Moseley
b. 1806             d. 1848

Moseley, L M               (This may be the same person as Levinia Mildred Shepperd Moseley listed above.)
b. 1810 Ga         d. 1949

Moseley, Elijah Robert
b. TX         d. 1840 in Tx very young

Moseley, Mason, Jr
b. Tx          d. 1842  very young

Wright, Anderson T             H/o Sarah Ann Barnes Wright
b. 1811         d. ?

Rogers, Alexander G, Jr           H/o Louisa Wright Rogers; S/o Alexander Rogers; Ms CSA 22nd Inf
b. 1830          d. ?

Johnston, Ira               S/o Isaac & Charlotte Baker Johnston
b. 1819 Caldwell Co, Ky         d. Apr 19, 1883

Barnes, Hezekiah                S/o Henry & Ann Roby Lanham Barnes; m. twice in Montgomery Co., Al
b. Dec 13,1802 Edgefield Dist, SC          d. Jan 2,1874

Barnes, Elizabeth Phillips               2nd W/o Hezekiah Barnes; D/o George & Elizabeth Talley Phillips
b. Sep 27,1828         d. Aug 14,1894

From information by Flavis Rogers of the Rogers family buried at Moseley Cemetery.

Rogers, F K
b. ?             d. Nov 22, 1861

Rogers, Frances E
b. ?            d. Aug 5, 1866

Rogers, Cora V L
b. ?            d. Apr 4, 1870

Wright, Anne Barnes ( Sarah Anne)            W/o Anderson T Wright; Sister/o Hezekiah Barnes
b. May 19,1812 Edgefield Dist, SC           d.  Oct 10,1879

Rogers, Alexander J               never married
b. Nov 24,1844            d.  Nov 28,1880

Rogers, Louisa Wright
b. 1831 Ala                d.  Nov 28,1896       W/o Alexander G Rogers Jr;  D/o Anderson T & Sarah Anne Barnes Wright

Rogers, Henry Ben
b. Nov 15,1860           d. Feb 24,1897

Wright, Henry E
b. 1853 Ala               d. - ?

Rogers, James Franklin (Frank)
b. 1853          d. 1897

 


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