This is the condition that we found the Cemetery. It was overgrown with saw briar and 
small brush. Cattle had knocked many of the stones over and several were broken. The photo on the left is some of our work crew near the center of the Cemetery. Near the center of the picture is the headstone and footstone of Willis Langston. The two stones on the right side of
the picture are for Ina Louise (Woolley) Allen [standing stone] and Pastor James Allen. [laying stone]. Ina Louise was the wife of Willis Langston until he was killed in 1865. To the right, you see this area near the end of the day.
This is just north of the Cemetery center.
To the southeast of the Cemetery center, there were areas of daffodils surrounding unmarked graves. Within the plots, in the center of the grave depressions, were smooth river rock.
The earliest marked graves were 1865 and the latest headstones read 1907. That would open the possibility that these daffodils are 100 to 140 years old.
All total, we flagged 26 possible unmarked graves that we found either by the flowers around them, or by noting the elongated depressions in the ground. It is possible that there are many more unmarked graves and many of the possible sites seemed to be many yards away from the center of the cemetery. Mr. Childress is making wooden crosses to mark the spots we found.
Supported by Dennis Brooks
