Stranger's Rest Cemetery
Also known as Frost Cemetery
Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas, USA
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This graveyard was the equivalent to a paupers cemetery.
NOTE: All burials (named on memorial stone) were between 1901 & 1947. Others have been added to website as found in death records.
The historical marker on this site reads as follows:
R.D.Holland,Sydney Hackney and S.D.Long,trustees of an Angelina Co. African-American cemetery group,acquired one acre here from the Lufkin Land and Timber Co. in 1905. Recorded burials began in 1901. The graveyard was first known as Frost Cemetery but according to local tradition began to be called Strangers Rest Cemetery about 1915 because of the large number of drifters buried here. The last recorded interment of Norris Patton took place in 1946. The site fell
into disrepair but was reclaimed by members of the local community and county volunteers in 1991-92.
This graveyard was the equivalent to a paupers cemetery.
NOTE: All burials (named on memorial stone) were between 1901 & 1947. Others have been added to website as found in death records.
The historical marker on this site reads as follows:
R.D.Holland,Sydney Hackney and S.D.Long,trustees of an Angelina Co. African-American cemetery group,acquired one acre here from the Lufkin Land and Timber Co. in 1905. Recorded burials began in 1901. The graveyard was first known as Frost Cemetery but according to local tradition began to be called Strangers Rest Cemetery about 1915 because of the large number of drifters buried here. The last recorded interment of Norris Patton took place in 1946. The site fell
into disrepair but was reclaimed by members of the local community and county volunteers in 1991-92.
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- Total memorials1k+
- Percent photographed89%
- Percent with GPS22%
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Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials346
- Percent photographed91%
- Percent with GPS24%
Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials1k+
- Percent photographed93%
- Percent with GPS42%
- Added: 23 May 2010
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2355244
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