Antioch Cemetery

The Handbook of Texas says Antioch was probably settled in the late 1880s and got a post office in 1890. By 1892 the village had two general stores, a school, two physicians and a combined gristmill and gin, and an estimated thirty people lived there in 1896. By the mid-1930s only a school, a cemetery and a few widely scattered houses remained. In the early 1990s a church and the cemetery alone marked the site, which the Handbook places on Farm Road 230, four miles southwest of Lovelady in southern Houston County.

What the plaque says

Antioch Cemetery Originally called Neville's Prairie Cemetery, this graveyard was renamed Antioch Cemetery in 1890 when the Village of Neville's Prairie became known as Antioch after a post office was established. The community had disappeared by the 1930s. The earliest documented burial in the cemetery is that of David Houston (1801-1870). Included among the more than 1,000 graves are internments of slaves and pioneer settlers. Maintained by the Antioch Cemetery Association, this graveyard stands as a reminder of Houston County's early history. (1988)

Where it stands

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