Cornett Cemetery

Cornett carried three names before the cemetery took the last. The community was first called Hamil's Chapel, then Troup, after Troup County, Georgia, the home of many early settlers. It became Cornett for the family of G. T. Cornett, who owned land there. A post office under that name ran from 1901 to 1906. The Handbook of Texas counts 53 people in 1933 with two rated businesses, 40 in 1964 with none, and an estimated 30 in 1986, when the place had a church and a community center.

What the plaque says

Cornett Cemetery The first burials here were in the 1850s, but the oldest legible stone marks the grave of Mary Frances Hampton, who died Oct. 4, 1880. Robert Dunlap donated nine acres of land to the cemetery and to adjacent Hamell's Chapel Methodist Church. Other donors of land included G. T. Cornett and S. E. McCord, Fred and Sallie Hall, and Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Trumble. Known by several names during its history, the community burial ground was renamed "Cornett" after Cornett Post Office was established in 1901. The cemetery contains about 295 marked and 110 unmarked graves. (1976)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Daingerfield State Park — 10 mi
  A pine-and-hardwood park built in 1935-39 by a white and a Black Civilian Conservation Corps company, with a dammed lake, Bass Lodge and a 2.4-mile loop trail around the water.
• Atlanta State Park — 20 mi
  A shoreline park on Wright Patman Lake, leased from the Army in 1954, where Caddo ancestors farmed the Sulphur River and wagon traces such as the Bobo Ferry trace still cross the woods.

More markers nearby

• Rocky Branch — 7.2 mi
• John Robin Heard — 7.3 mi
• John Robin Heard Cemetery — 7.5 mi
• Naples — 7.8 mi