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.

  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."
 
3 FORD, Dora 22 Aug 1890 19 Jun 1912 husband  H. M. Ford 
"Sweetly resting in Heaven"
 
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

Sabine County Cemeteries

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