Old Crow Cemetery

Located about 1.5 miles south of Little Mound Church, on Tangerine Road off Texas Hwy 49, in a private pasture, not easily accessible from the road.

Our thanks go to Stan Stokes for reading this cemetery! Thanks to great volunteers like Stan, we are able to put many small cemeteries online as they are found. Update! Please note that Alice Lane has sent in her Cranfill ancestors that are buried at Old Crow, and they are added at the bottom of the page. We also thank Alice for sending in the above pictures that were taken in 1966. UPDATE! You will see entries in RED. Thanks go to the Upshur County Historical Commission for these additions.

Read Aug 7, 2001 by Stan Stokes

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.

All markers with writing are included below.  Additionally, there were at least 15 unknown graves marked by native rocks only, included two graves covered in large piles of stones.

The writing is shown exactly as on the stones, except where my parenthesis are added for clarification.

Wm. Crow
Died Oct 1, 1866

Jas. M. Stephenson
Born Feb 4,  1805               Died Jan 14,  1883

Nancy Stephenson               D/o William Crow
Born June 13, 1809              Died June 30,  1887

J. B. Crow
Died Feb 28, 1865

Sarah J. Allison Crow              on same stone with G W
Born July 31 1824                Died Dec 23 1894

George Washington  Crow          on same stone with Sarah
Born Sep 21 1820            Died Oct 20 1877

L. G. Crow
Born May 24 1868             Died Oct 10 1899

M. L. Crow
Born Sep 5 1896             Died Sep 15 1897

John G. Crow
Born Mar 2 1847               Died Apr 25 1879

Flora A. Crow            D/o  J G & S R Crow
Born Mar 7 1872              Died Sep 19 1874

G. H. Crow
Born  Nov 20 1848             Died  May 18 1898

T. C. Wilson                Age 9 yrs 8 days
Died 15 July 1875

Henry R. (Stephenson)                 on same stone with Emma; S/o Jno. & Mary J Stephenson
Born Dec 31 1878                Died Aug 1879

Emma R. (Stephenson)           on same stone with Henry; D/o Jno. & Mary J Stephenson
Born & Died July 5 1873

Darcus M Calhous             W/o E W  & D/o  B & R Dabney
b. Feb 14, 1841             d. Jul 14, 1883 or July 24, 1869

John Calhoun         (probably unmarked; shown in Crow history of cemetery)
1847 - 1879

The following three are Alice Lane's Cranfill ancestors buried at Old Crow. In 1966 she visited the Old Crow Cemetery with her mother, who pointed out to Alice where the Cranfills were buried in unmarked graves. She wonders if there could be more. Thomas Cranfill Biography

Cranfills buried at Old Crow Cemetery:

      Thomas Cranfill
      Born l82l          Died l889

       Susan Cantor Cranfill (W/o Thomas Cranfill)
       Born l834       Died l877

      Junie Helen Cranfill (D/o Thomas  & Susan Cranfill)
      Born Jun l4, l873        Died Nov 9, l874

Thanks to Wendy Cranfill for this additional unmarked grave:

Thomas Edwin Cranfill (son of Thomas & Susan Cranfill, and husband of Ruth Elliott)
b. September 20, 1869 in Upshur Co., TX             d. December 13, 1910 in Upshur Co., TX
He lived in OK but had come to TX to visit his family, and contracted blood poisoning and died at his sister Flora Eugenia Cranfill Barton's house. In OK, he left a wife and 3 living children (twin children, Luther & Relah, had previously died.)
 

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