From Gladewater, take Hwy 80 west to Almond St. (This is past Gladewater Memorial Cemetery).  Turn right on Almond, go approx. 1 1/2 miles.  The Locust Grove Baptist Church and cemetery will be on the left.

The stone at the front of the cemetery (see picutre) reads in part:  Locust Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery established 1880.  Land donated by W W Shepperd.

Read July 10, 2001 by Randy and Sharon Pierce
Pictures added May 2008

UPDATE: Transcribed & completely photographed Oct 2008 by Geraldine Little Braswell & Sandy Spann.    There are numerous rocks, bricks, & blank funeral home markers marking gravesites throughout the cemetery.

As hard as we all try, we are 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.

From the front gate:

Maberry, Mamie Collins             w/o R W Maberry
Dec 11, 1888          Jan 20, 1919        

(Collins, Zella A
1889           1919
(Collins, Julian C
1886           1919

Moody, Hardy
May 10, 1914           Dec 23, 1979

(Crouch, William W
1890          1972
(Crouch, Lois
1900          1943

Gibson, Alice        (no dates)           age 27 years

Adams, Wilbor              S/o Mr & Mrs Wilbor Adams
Dec 5, 1956          Dec 5, 1956            

(Dyer, Leslie Carl            Croley Funeral Home Marker       S1 US Navy WWII        m. 1/22/1949
Apr 21, 1928         Aug 21, 1993              
(Dyer, Vera Nell
Sep 7, 1931                                         

(Hadaway, Dale            OK BM2 US Navy WWII
Apr 3, 1923          Apr 27, 1967               
(Hadaway, Dorothy
1932                      1967
(Hadaway, Ernest J
1896                      1967

(Hendee, Gordon D
Jun 14, 1893             --------
(Hendee, Thelma D "Babe"
Nov 6, 1907             --------

(Johnston, Roland Carlos              Sgt US Army WWII
Feb 27, 1916           Jan 8, 1976           
(Johnston, Ellen I
Dec 31, 1928           ------

Johnston, Roland C Jr               EOCN US Navy Vietnam
Jun 19, 1947            Oct 22, 1982

Johnston, Timothy        Inf s/o Martha Johnston     Stone Goodwin FHM
1991          1992            

(Strange, E E (Bill)
Jan 31, 1908             Apr 11, 1993
(Strange, Myrtle May 
Apr 21, 1902             Mar 29, 1992

Peralli, Anna E
Oct 1, 1923          Apr 2, 1984

(Parnell, Jesse J
Nov 2, 1892             Nov 28, 1972
(Parnell, Annie L
Aug 3, 1902              Apr 27, 1968

Campbell, Grace C              Sp 5  US Army  Vietnam
Sep 12, 1951           Aug 7, 1984         

unmarked

(Goodson, Travis O
Dec 21, 1930            Jul 31, 2000
(Goodson, Nellie M
Jan 26, 1936              May 20, 1984

Goodson, Raymond J               SN  US Navy WWII
1928           1979         

Graves, Bee            s/o J T & S E Graves
Feb 8, 1902        Aug 21, 1906            

unmarked stone with rusted FHM

Collins, Thurlow W
Nov 15, 1893        May 14, 1917

Collins, Infant             child of J C & Zella Collins
Dec 21, 1915          Dec 22, 1915          

Collins, Victor            s/o J C & Zella Collins
Jul 23, 1912          Nov 6, 1917          

Collins, Sarah Ray            w/o J H Collins
1852           1929           

Collins, J H
Sep 26, 1849         May 31, 1914

Collins, Infant              child of W F & Goldie Collins
b&d Feb 9, 1906                  

Collins, Newt
Apr 3, 1878        Oct 21, 1905

Collens, Lula              d/o J H & S A Collins
Dec 15, 1890           Nov 21, 1898            

Collins, Gabe
Jan 28, 1883          Oct 17, 1905

Daniels, William      (no dates)

Daniels, Kitty       (no dates)

Shepperd, Infant              child of B F & M F Shepperd
b&d 1899        

Shepperd, Benjamin Franklin
Apr 26, 1851            Oct 5, 1929

Shepperd, Mary Franklin              w/o Benjamin F Shepperd
Jan 13, 1867           Feb 25, 1940          

Mackey, Berdie Dewine             s/o Roy & Jackie Mackey
Dec 20, 1922           Jan 28, 1923            

Mackey, Infant               d/o Roy & Jackie Mackey
b&d Jul 27, 1913            

Mackey, Infant               d/o Roy & Jackie Mackey
b&d Feb 23, 1906              

Gee, Kathaleen              d/o R M & Bessie E Gee
Jul 7, 1915          Jan 2, 1917             

(Gee, Bessie
1893             1918
(Gee, Robert M            Mason
1887             1954              

(Gee, L M
Jul 10, 1848               Feb 23, 1920
(Gee, Sallie Armstrong
Nov 29, 1851             -------

2 unmarked

1 unreadable

(Parnell, Birtie
Apr 13, 1896            --------
(Parnell, Martin
Mar 6, 1890             Dec 7, 1970

unreadable

(Davis, James Arthur             Tec 4  US Army WWII
Sep 15, 1917          Jan 25, 1987          
(Davis, Alma Shamburger
Jul 18, 1927             Mar 10, 2003

Shamburger, Colmon R                PFC US Army WWII
Oct 28, 1915          Oct 11, 1982        

Shamburger, Coy
Apr 25, 1910          Sep 9, 1970

(Allen, Virgil L
Apr 21, 1901           Feb 5, 1967
(Allen, Hazel T
Nov 13, 1911           May 10, 1991

Goodson, Michael Deen
Dec14, 1972           Mar 19, 1977

(Goodson, John David            Pvt US Army WWI & WWII
Jan 15, 1898          May 5, 1982          
(Goodson, Bertha L
Apr 23, 1904         Dec 28, 1968

(Tisdale, James Burl            
Feb 26, 1887         Jan 5, 1963
(Tisdale, Annie Bell             
Mar 10, 1887        Feb 5, 1961

Tisdale Infant daughter
Dec 27, 1919

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

(Barber, Daner J
Feb 5, 1906              Feb 25, 1983
(Barber, Lula Mae
Apr 18, 1912           Dec 9, 1983

Parnell, J M
Jan 26, 1850          May 16, 1912

(Parnell, John M
Jan 26, 1850         May 12, 1912
(Parnell, Louisa E
May 13, 1862       Aug 15, 1950

4 unmarked

Shepperd, G W             Oldest S/o James R & Elizabeth Ann Ray Shepperd
Jul 12, 1866         Dec 27, 1937

Shepperd, Marcia Jones           W/o GW

unmarked

(Shepperd, J R
Mar 18, 1833          Jun 9, 1898
(Shepperd, Mrs E A
May 25, 1833          Jan 10, 1909

Shepperd, Alonza F
1868           1932

Shepperd, Emma E
1878           1932

unmarked

Davis, Charles E
Jun 15, 1927          Jul 31, 1927

Carpenter, Infant                    s/o Mr & Mrs Roy Carpenter
b&d April 27, 1955            

Alexander, Irene Haigwood
Oct 27, 1903           1994

(Franklin, Pauline H
Dec 4, 1899          May 19, 1990
(Franklin, John Rex              Pvt US Army  WWI
Jul 5, 1896             Jul 23, 1976            

Johnson, W H                Pic#2
May 15, 1855          Mar 21, 1912       

Johnson, Nealie
Jul 27, 1860         Apr 10, 1947

(Kelly, Arthur B
Apr 7, 1886          Aug 1, 1967
(Kelly, Sue Ann           Malcolm Stone Funeral Home Marker
Sep 20, 1888        Dec 29, 1977

Kelly, Keith
Jan 12, 1926         Jul 7, 1928

Kelly, Linda Ray
Jun 10, 1939         Aug 28, 1939

Kelly, Mignyawn
Sep 8, 1917        Oct 4, 1989

Steelman, Olene
Feb 4, 1912          Mar 12, 1912

Kelly, Arthur Gilbert             Stone Goodwin FHM
1910           1994             

7 unmarked stones

Johnson, Ben G
1919          1951

Johnson, Nora Ida          Croley FHM
1885           1977

(Johnson, Thomas E
Nov 23, 1910             Sep 15, 1977
(Johnson, Gussie M                m. Apr 22, 1932
Dec 11, 1916             Jan 24, 1983          

Wells, Garry Elwyn               US Army
Nov 19, 1958          Aug 7, 1988            

Croley FHM  (nothing on it)

Johnson, Jessey James                Stone Goodwin FHM
1968           1987             

Allen, Robert Earl
Apr 23, 1959          Dec 16, 1988

Allen, Troy Lee 
May 22, 1938        Nov 18, 1997

Allen, Larry Edward  (Lead)
Aug 19, 1961         Dec 7, 1999

Long, Lucy E
May 26, 1879         Apr 15, 1938

(Brewer, Katie M
Aug 25, 1914            Feb 18, 1999
(Brewer, M D (Jack)              Funeral Home Marker
Jul 4, 1913                Jan 7, 1968

Brewer, George L              SP 5 US Army Vietnam
Jul 27, 1945           Aug 8, 1984            

(Kelley, Lawrence O'Dell
Nov 5, 1921              ----
(Kelley, Lorene Crouch
Sep 25, 1922            Apr 10, 1992

Wheeler, M D "Buddy"
Aug 25, 1928          Jan 10, 1993

Allen, Ona Mae
Dec 6, 1926           Jan 26, 1987

Allen, Lee Henry "Bill"
Apr 2, 1905         May 29, 1983

Allen, Thurman A             Tx Pvt HO Co 131 FA 36 Div  WWI
Feb 13, 1892          Jul 22, 1962           

(Allen, Joseph C
1854           1931
(Allen, Sarah J
1869           1947