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Bethlehem Cemetery

Take Hwy 1650 east, turn right onto Nuthatcher Rd.  Go 1 mile south, turn right onto Martin Rd. Go west for 1.3 miles.
As hard as we all try, we are all human and sometimes when reading a cemetery we miss a grave covered with leaves, fireants, or bushes. Sometimes the headstone has sunk and is mostly underground. Our area also has many graves only marked with iron ore rocks and even many unmarked graves. There are headstones that have long ago been destroyed by the elements or even vandalizm, and are hard to impossible to read the details. We would appreciate it if you would let us know if you did not find your relative which was buried here, and would appreciate your letting us use the information you know about them. With the combined efforts of us all, we can make the Upshur County website bigger and better.


This cemetery is very old, probably started about 1850.
Thanks to Maribeth Buce & Jane Eubanks for the pictures!
Submitted by Jim Daniels and the Upshur County Historical Commission. Complete reading ca 1994.
(AA) Thanks go to Ann Arnhart for sending in the information with (AA) from her personal files!
(BC) Thanks go to Betty Cabbiness for sending in the information with (BC) from her personal files!
(GLB) Thanks go to Geraldine Little Braswell for sending in the information with (GLB) from her personal files!
 

Reading from the Front (East)

John A Castle
b. 28 Mar 1855           d. 18 Sep 1935

Clarissa Castle
b. 15 Mar 1867            d. 9 Aug 1943

Mollie J Smith
b. 16 Oct 1851             d. 21 Mar 1919

G W Smith
b. 5 Nov 1850          d. 30 Nov 1915

James Cleveland Smith                s/o G W & Mollie Smith
b. 16 Nov 1891        d. 18 May 1897

Annie Belle Smith             d/o G W & Mollie Smith
b. 19 Aug 1894              d. 30 Nov 1894

James H Gentry                s/o Callihan Gentry & Archibald Gentry of Society Hill, Al
b. 1825                 d. 1854

Mrs. L J Gentry
b. 3 Apr 1825              d. 1 Jan 1897

Baby Morton                  I/o Buddy & Duck Lungine
No Dates

Duck Gentry           w/o Buddy Lungine

E L Richardson              s/o J Darrel & S E Richardson
b. 2 Dec 1885              d. 15 Dec 1904

E A Richardson               d/o J Darrel & S E Richardson
b. Sep 1881                  d. 2 Mar 1884

T G Amoss            (Rock Vault)
1849

? G Amoss                   (Rock Vault)
1869

In Memory of  C Francis Wilkinson,  A soldier in the War 1812; S/o Jemima Chivers Wilkinson & Pleasant Wilkinson
b. 1796 in Washington, Ga           d. 1860

W H Webb             s/o D G & M A Webb
b. 22 Mar 1880              d. 13 Jul 1884

Erline Matthews            d/o H & J Matthews
b. Mar 1892             d. July 1895

Herbert Lee Smith        Pic #2 (Easier to read)
b. 18 May 1929            d. 1 July 1930

Sonora V Kennard             w/o G T Kennard
b. 2 Mar 1846             d. 6 Sept 1884

G T Kennard
b. 10 June 1845            d. 31 May 1890

Hannah Mayfield
b. 1 Feb 1841            d. 25 Sept 1902

Asa Mayfield
b. 9 May 1820            d. 13 Oct 1901

W B Witcher
b. 10 June 1856             d. 1867

Martha E Owens
b. 3 Dec 1863               d. 14 Aug 1883

Anis Rebecca Owens             w/o W H Owens
b. 2 Mar 1855                 d. 16 Apr 1884

J O Owens
b. 10 Sept 1879                d. 10 May 1899

Along East Side:

Beatrice Christian             d/o James & M Christian; Age 8 years 23 days
d. 8 Oct 1856

William A Brawley
b. 26 Feb 1874         d. 29 Nov 1913

Robert Brawley          h/o Mollie E Brawley
b. 29 May 1823           d. 16 Aug 1890

Mollie E Brawley             w/o Robert Brawley
b. 10 Feb 1843            d. 12 Jan 1911

Mary J Thompson               w/o H P Thompson
b. 5 Apr 1837             d. 8 Jan 1873

Mary C Thompson
b. 8 March 1847              d. 1 Oct 1864

Lula L Christian              w/o Ira B Christian
b. 16 Mar 1862              d. 12 Aug 1894

Middle East  (old):

Lucian A Brown
b. 19 Aug 1869         d. 1 Sept 1873

? E Heap          (rock head stone)

Orange Walker                Co I 3rd Regt LA  CSA
b. 1820            d. 1900

E A Will            (rock vault)

Eliza E Johnson
b. 15 July 1831           d. 18 Jan 1889

G W Johnson
b. 26 Sept 1823          d. 4 Nov 1879

Mary J Powell            d/o G W & E E Johnson
b. 28 Aug 1854          d. 17 Apr 1879

Sallie C Oden             d/o G W & E E Johnson; (head stone missing)
b. 24 Jan 1856           d. 1 Dec 1878

Susie A Oden           d/o G W & E E Johnson
b. 19 May 1858          d. 2 Jan 1876

J M Johnson            s/o G W & E E Johnson
b. 20 Dec 1852            d. 22 Sept 1870

Patsey Davis           d/o P D Davis
b. May 1871          d. 16 Oct 1885

Mittie Nichols
b. 31 July 1876           d. 24 July 1919

Middle East (new):

Melvin Goodson
b. 1904             d. 1965

Anne Marie Jones
b. 1935          d. 1985

Arthur Manue Jones IV
b. Apr 10, 1963                d. Nov 1, 1975

Middle West (new):

Gerald Edward (Jerry) Tucker
b. Dec 22 1930               d. Sept 17, 1996

Bobby Jean Williamson Tucker        Only 1 date
Mar 30, 1930

Back (North):

Baby Tucker

A E Tucker
b. 21 Aug 1856       d. 23 Dec 1898

Oscar Tucker
b. 5 Dec 1851         d. 20 Sept 1899

Claude
b. 7 May 1876         d. 12 Apr 1878

Dirous Ethridge            s/o Mr & Mrs A E Ethridge
b. 17 Sept 1900          d. 3 Nov 1900

Wiley E Florence
b. 6 Oct 1828            d. 10 Dec 1903

Patrick Wayne Jones
b. 1966             d. 1983

Martin V J Banigan
b. Nov 26, 1918              d. May 5, 1980

Lemuel Byrd Woods            s/o Francis Lemuel Woods & Ruben Arcanna Boatright
b. Sept 18, 1902              d. Oct 3, 1986

Emma Bell Clemons Woods               d/o Willie Lee Clemons & Annie May Wier
b. Oct 20, 1906             d. May 29, 1988

William Dickinson
b. 3 Apr 1828           d. 9 Aug 1910

Martha P Dickinson
b. 13 May 1832            d. 16 Sept 1898

s/o W & M P Dickinson
b. 5 Aug 1871             d. 17 Sept 1883

Virgie Buie                     infant d/o D A & A I Buie
b. 23 Jan 1892               d. 24 Jan 1892

Rebecca Florence              w/o Wiley Florence
b. 15 Dec 1833             d. 6 Mar 1917

F C Florence                 Age 28 years 3 months 28 days
b. 16 Feb 1854

A Council
b. 13 Jan 1815                d. 19 July 1897

Mary J Buie Council             w/o A Council; also m.previously & widowed to Henry J Lowe, Joshia R Daniels,
A Smith Kilgore
b. Sept 1824                 d. 23 Apr 1897
 

Adelia I Buie           w/o D A Buie
b. 21 Nov 1859            d. 22 Jan 1892

Temporary metal marker unreadable in 1998

Rock Vault no markings

James Henry Burroughs
b. 26 Nov 1841           d. 2 July 1921

Sarah Elizabeth Burroughs
b. 1 Feb 1845                  d. 10 Feb 1929

E Wood
b. 19 Feb 1805            d. 20 Dec 1884

Chester Burroughs
b. 1869             d. 1893

Frank Burroughs                age 2 years

Mrs Louisa Jones               w/o Early T Jones
b. 12 Aug 1820               d. 1863

Ruthy May Driggers
b. 2 Oct 1883             d. 6 Oct 1887

Ethelmae Dunbar
b. Feb 13, 1898               d.June 15, 1901

Oree Dunbar
b. Mar 10, 1899            d. Apr 2, 1899

Alice L Dunbar           w/o G W Dunbar; (AA) Sister/o Maggie Porter; D/o JA & Amanda Smith
b. 26 Apr 1881           d. 17 Nov 1915

George W Dunbar
b. 20 Oct 1876           d. 20 June 1935

Mary A Dunbar             w/o G W Dunbar
b. 15 Feb 1852            d. 18 Apr 1926

Geo W Dunbar
b. 8 Apr 1847              d. 5 May 1887

W O Barker
b. 16 Feb 1816             d. 2 Mar 1874

Mrs Mathae Brown
b. 16 Aug 1823                d. 20 Mar 1900

Minnie M Brown
b. 26 Sept 1866          d. 20 Oct 1887

William Madison Brown
b. 23 Dec 1820            d. 22 July 1883

Elizabeth Owings
b. 10 May 1835            d. 29 Aug 1875

Brown Infant             Inf s/o F T & R A Brown
b. 1 June 1881             d. 1 June 1881

Baby McClelland
Hugh McClelland
Bought by Mattie Florence

Minor M Stephens             s/o I N & Teressa Stephens
b. 31 Aug 1873            d. 16 Oct 1880

Odessa S Stephens            d/o W R & L B Stephens
b. 30 Dec 1885            d. 6 Nov 1886

Little Inez Stephens            d/o Z T & L J Stephens
b. 26 Aug 1887               d. 30 Aug 1888

Amanda Smith           w/o John Smith
b. 27 Jan 1861               d. 12 Jan 1936

Lee Porter       (GLB) Hubbard Lee Porter, S/o George Washington & Mary Ella Williams Porter (buried Enon Cemetery, Upshur Co, Tx); He died at age two; Information supplied by: Carolyn De Lisle Denny; Submitted by Geraldine Little Braswell
b. 30 Mar 1895           d. 13 June 1897

Maggie Porter                  (GLB) Maggie Smith Porter, First W/o William Henry Porter;  No children; Information supplied by: Carolyn
De Lisle Denny; Submitted by Geraldine Little Braswell;
(AA) Sister/o Alice L Dunbar; D/o JA & Amanda Smith
b. 30 Dec 1882           d. 1 Aug 1899
 

Joshua C Cabbiness      (BC) H/o Sarah A E Mings Cabbiness, Married Oct 15, 1842, Due to vandalism, Joshua's headstone has been broken into 3 pieces.
b. 15 May 1818            d. 10 Nov 1896

Sarah E Cabbiness      (BC) Sarah A E Mings Cabbiness, W/o Joshua C; D/o Jesse Daniel & Sarah Ann Elizer Riles Mings
b. 15 Apr 1821            d. 22 July 1897

John F Ford
b. 1846              d. 1902

Sarah C Ford
b. 1849                  d. 1930

Robert L Porter

Dixie Lee Porter

Ella Mae Porter

Eliza A Watts
b. 1867           d. 1964

John S Watts            Tx Pvt Co B TX Calvary CSA
b. Feb 11, 1847              d. Sept 19, 1918

Charlie Watts             s/o J S & E A Watts
b. 13 Aug 1890             d. 8 Oct 1905

Daisy Plummer           d/o R A & Annie E Plummer
b. 7 Jan 1913

Starr baby

Elvis Doyle Williamson            s/o A T & Arris Williamson
20 Aug 1924

Arris Georgia Williamson               s/o R L & Sarah Williamson
b. June 16, 1904             d. May 1, 1967

Allen Thomas Williamson               s/o R L & Sarah Williamson
b. May 15, 1897                d.June 20, 1969

Lillie Witcher
b. 1908              d. 1909

Ben W Witcher
b. 1850            d. 1909

Bettie L Witcher
b. 1865            d. 1959

Maud Witcher
b. 1893              d. 1905

Amanda Rash
b. 1 Jan 1848                 d. 11 June 1905
R M Rash
b. 8 Sept 1840                 d. 14 Jan 1907

W G Rash
b. 2 Apr 1871             d. 27 Dec 1915
Hallie Rash
b. 1 Aug 1881            d. 28 Feb 1912

Ray Lynn Rash                  U S Army Korea
b. Dec 14, 1930              d. Jan 10, 1994

Beedy Williams                    D/o H.C. Williams
b. May 18, 1887             d. July 30, 1893

There are numerous graves in this cemetery marked only with a rock.  The names and dates for
these graves are lost to time.  However, these rocks should not be disturbed or removed.

There are five rock vaults (large flat rock, placed above ground on a flat rock back).  These
type graves, although fairly common in Upshur County, are unique and should be protected from
destruction or removal.

Recent burials:
Donald Wayne Yates
b. 1950          d. 2003

Willie Earl Woods
b. 1946          d. 2003

Matthew Richard Oberlander              S/o Alfred & Deborah Oberlander
b. 3-8-1962       d. 8-28-2001

Larry Joe Adams
b. 5-19-1949        d. 8-1-2002
 

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