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Gates Chapel Cemetery

Shelbyville, Shelby County, Texas, USA

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Get directions Shelbyville, Texas, USA

Coordinates: 31.74552, -94.09781
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Gates Chapel Cemetery is an African American cemetery located North from Center Texas. The cemetery is behind the Gates Chapel Baptist Church and is in fair condition. Some markers are particlly destroyed, faded and hard to interpret along with some old funeral home markers. The cemetery is surrounded by a chain link fence. There are also some unmarked graves.

Directions to the cemetery: Take Highway 87 to Shelbyville, turn right on Farm Road 417 go one and half mile to County Road 2310 take a right, the cemetery is behind the Gates Chapel Baptist Church.

The memorial marker reads:

Gates Chapel Baptist Church
Pastor, Rev. C.C. Hooper
Deacons
M C. Byndom,
L.M. Collins
J. E. Jennings,
J. E. McClelland
Lillie Bolden
In Memory of Rev. R. G. Gates
1865 - 1956

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