Floyds' Hill Church - Cemetery

Travelers who died along the Cusseta-Linden road, an early immigrant route, were buried here under rocks, many without names, until the cemetery association bought marble slabs for them in 1960. Just over the south fence lie the graves of enslaved people brought to Texas with their enslavers. They helped build the church and worshipped in it until Killis S. Floyd gave land for a separate church, Floyd Valley Church. Only one grave there has a stone, for Mollie Titus; the others are marked with rocks, in ground now grown over with trees.

What the plaque says

Floyds' Hill Church - Cemetery On Oct. 9, 1854, Killis S. Floyd donated a four-acre tract to three trustees of the Missionary Baptist Church, afterwards known as Floyds' Hill Church. The Rev. John Massey and the Rev. C. G. Stephens organized the congregation on Dec. 10, 1854, with 15 charter members. Worship services were held at the Frifogle house, former home of a pioneer family, until a log church was completed in 1855. About 1858 the log building was replaced by a one-room frame structure, erected with the help of slave labor. Blacks worshiped here until Floyd gave land for a separate black church. The adjacent Floyds' Hill Cemetery, which contains about 200 known graves, served the pioneer families who migrated to this locality from Alabama and Georgia in the 1850s. The oldest stone marks the grave of Mary Bryan (1850-1858). The farming community of Floyds' Hill declined after World War I, and regular church services ended in 1926. When a storm damaged the church building in 1932, volunteers erected a new frame structure on the original foundation. Floyds' Hill Church - Cemetery Association, established in 1948, sponsors an annual homecoming for descendants of early settlers. (1977)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Atlanta State Park — 12 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.
• Daingerfield State Park — 17 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.
• Museum of Regional History — 30 mi
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