SWEET CEMETERY
Sabine County, Texas
Indexed 24 Feb 2001 - Kay Parker McCary & Billy Neal Fussell
Date of Last Burial - 23 April 1990
DIRECTIONS Sweet Cemetery - Sabine County, Texas - From the courthouse in Hemphill take Hwy 83 East 1 block to Hwy 87. Go North or left 7 miles to Milam. At the intersection of Hwy 87 and Hwy 21 in Milam continue North on Hwy 87 12.7 miles. (The Munnerlyn Cemetery will be on the right.) Turn West or Left on Crockett Lane and continue 0.9 mile until you see the fenced cemetery on the Right in an open field. Additional information added in parenthesis. |
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Name | Born | Died | Inscription | Comments | |
1 | ARBUCKLE, Martha SWEET | 23 Nov 1933 | 17 Dec 1987 | "An inspiration to others" | |
2 | BALLARD, Anna | 24 Jun 1849 | 5 Nov 1867 | dau of James L. & Harriett Sweet husband - Carroll Ballard m 14 Mar 1866 "Come round her tomb object of desire, Each purer frame inflamed with purer fire Be all that’s good that cheers & softens life the tender sister, daughter friend & wife And where your virtures have counted o’er Look on this stone. Then be vain no more." |
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3 | FORD, Dora | 22 Aug 1890 | 19 Jun 1912 | husband H. M. Ford "Sweetly resting in Heaven" |
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4 | PRATT, Martha SWEET | 19 Nov 1858 | 3 Dec 1949 | "A life like hers left a record, sweet for memory to dwell upon" | |
5 | SWEET, Anna | 1888 | 1888 | Infant | |
6 | SWEET, Asa C. | 24 Sept 1882 | 26 Feb 1902 | "A link that binds us to heaven" | |
7 | SWEET, Aunt Betsy | 1815 | 1905 | "Slave" | |
8 | SWEET, Bertie | 3 Sept 1885 | 8 Jan 1887 | "Gone to be an angel" | |
9 | SWEET, Grover C. | 29 Aug 1892 | 3 Aug 1967 | ||
10 | SWEET, Harriett | 1878 | 1878 | Infant | |
11 | SWEET, Harriett K. | 26 Feb 1809 | 27 Nov 1877 | h. James L. Sweet | |
12 | SWEET, Imogene | 29 Nov 1895 | 23 Apr 1990 | ||
13 | SWEET, James L. | 10 May 1809 | 8 Sept 1883 | Masonic emblem | w. Harriett K. Sweet |
14 | SWEET, Jessie Weeks | 1892 | 1894 | ||
15 | SWEET, Thomas C. | 10 Apr 1854 | 8 Oct 1896 | "A truer noble heart never beat within a human breast" | |
16 | SWEET, Thomas H. | 26 Jan 1886 | 27 Jul 1908 | "He was a kind and loving son and affectionate brother" | |
17 | SWEET, William Henry | 1823 | 1863 | ||
18 | WHITTON, Mammie SWEET | 1880 | 1898 | ||
19 | (unknown) | Funeral Home Marker (all information gone) |
Prepared for Internet presentation by Barbara Yancey Dore 8 Jun 2001