Old Friendship Cemetery

Norma Gorman Wright and a friend read this cemetery, late January, 1996. She writes,
" Old Friendship Cemetery is located on the Hallsville road, north of Noonday, north of LaGrone's Chapel. It is on private property; but the young man who owns the place was gracious enough to lead my friend and me through his back yard, around a fenced pen, and over the hill where his cattle are pastured. He opened a wire gate, and helped us to enter the overgrown burial ground. No animals have been grazing there, for the protection of the cemetery; and brambles and vicious briars, tall grasses, and creeping underbrush have intertwined, making walking almost impossible. The owner became interested with us, overcoming his natural reluctance to disturb a burial ground; and it was only because of his good help that we were able to find and read several of the stones. Some could only be read by making chalk rubbings.

Most of the stones had broken, and a few had been grown over, and were found only by probing the dirt. While I stood imprisoned by briars, the landowner and my lady friend dug the dirt away with their hands, made the sometimes necessary rubbings, and dictated the inscriptions to me when they could read them. It was a real adventure. We were not able to find two stones that are locked too tightly in the brush. The owner's two sons told of seeing them in the past. The ones we were able to read are as follows:"